NASA Orders Up a Double Shot of Venus Missions Amid Questions About Life

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NASA’s planetary science program is making a big bet on Venus, after decades of putting its chips on Mars in the search for hints of past or present life out there in the solar system.


The bet comes in the form of a double dose of development funding for Discovery Program missions, amounting to as much as $1 billion. Both DAVINCI+ and VERITAS were selected from a field of four finalists in a competitive process — leaving behind missions aimed at studying Jupiter’s moon Io and Neptune’s moon Triton.


“These two sister missions are both aimed to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said June 2 in his first “State of NASA” address. “They will offer the entire science community the chance to investigate a planet we haven’t been to in more than 30 years.”

NASA Orders Up a Double Shot of Venus Missions Amid Questions About Life - Universe Today

NASA’s planetary science program is making a big bet on Venus, after decades of putting its chips on Mars in the search for hints of past or present life out there in the solar system. The bet comes in the form of a double dose of development funding for Discovery Program missions, amounting to...

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[JacobCooper45]

Did you hear that Russia announced its own mission to Venus after NASA's announcement? It's called a Venera-D. I don't think they'll ever finish it, will be interesting to watch how they fail once again.