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Apr 22, 2024 · Science articles on the planet Venus including up-to-date detailed images, related missions and more.
Parker Solar Probe Captures its First Images of Venus' Surface in ...
Feb 9, 2022 · In the time since Parker Solar Probe captured its first visible light images of Venus’ surface from orbit in July 2020, a subsequent flyby has allowed the spacecraft to gather more images, creating a video of Venus’ entire nightside.
Scientists hail 'the decade of Venus' with 3 new missions on the way
Mar 11, 2022 · VERITAS, targeting launch in 2027, is tailored to peer through the planet's thick clouds and give scientists their first glimpse of the Venusian surface since the end of NASA's Magellan mission...
Venus has more volcanism than previously known, new analysis …
WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - Venus appears to be more volcanically active than previously known, according to scientists whose new analysis of decades-old radar images has spotted evidence...
Dark side of Venus revealed in new NASA photos - NBC News
A NASA spacecraft has captured never-before-seen images of Venus, providing stunning views of the hellishly hot surface of the second rock from the sun.
Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA’s …
May 27, 2024 · The discovery of recent volcanism on Venus provides a valuable insight to the planet’s history and why it took a different evolutionary path than Earth. Before starting its journey to Venus, NASA’s Magellan spacecraft was released while in Earth orbit by Space Shuttle Atlantis’ STS-30 mission.
NASA will be heading back to Venus for the first time in ... - Science News
Jun 2, 2021 · NASA’s next two missions, named DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, are heading to Venus, administrator Bill Nelson announced at a news conference June 2. “These two sister missions both aim to understand how...
Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA’s …
May 27, 2024 · Scientists study active volcanoes to understand how a planet’s interior can shape its crust, drive its evolution, and affect its habitability. The discovery of recent volcanism on Venus provides a valuable insight to the planet’s history and why it …
NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus
Jun 2, 2021 · NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. Part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics similar to ours – and may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and ...
NASA’s Magellan Data Reveals Volcanic Activity on Venus
Mar 15, 2023 · Scientists made the discovery after poring over archival radar images of Venus taken more than 30 years ago, in the 1990s, by NASA’s Magellan mission. The images revealed a volcanic vent changing shape and increasing significantly in size in less than a year.