New NASA Venus Probes

Illustration of Venus atmospheric probes releasing toward the cloud-covered planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_zLezYh1VQ

In June 2021 NASA selected DAVINCI and VERITAS to return to Venus: one mission descends through the atmosphere with instruments; the other maps the surface from orbit.

Together they target Venus’s runaway greenhouse climate, geology, and whether the planet once had oceans — questions left open since earlier probe eras.

Wednesday June 9th 2021