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NASA plans two new missions to Venus – The West Australian
NASA will launch two missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 – its first in decades – to study the atmosphere and geologic features of earth’s neighbour.
NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbour, after decades of exploring other worlds.
The space agency’s new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new robotic missions to the solar system’s hottest planet, which will launch between 2028 to 2030.
“These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface,” Nelson said on Wednesday.
One mission named DaVinci Plus will analyse the thick,…
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