Three Future Venus Missions

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Scientists hail 'the decade of Venus' with 3 new missions on the way: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/money/tech-an ... ar-AAUXKer.

"NASA committed to two new Venus missions, VERITAS and DAVINCI, while the European Space Agency greenlit one called EnVision. All three are expected to conduct the bulk of their observations in the early 2030s and are designed to revolutionize scientific study of the planet."

"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 in 1994."

"DAVINCI's probe will land in a particularly complex area called Alpha Regio, the target of research presented by Margaret Deahn, a graduate student working with Gilmore at Wesleyan University."

"One of the instruments aboard VERITAS, the Venus Emissivity Mapper, will see a near-twin fly on ESA's mission EnVision, targeting launch in the early 2030s."

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