NASA to send two missions to Venus
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Kathmandu, June 4. NASA has announced that they will be sending two new missions to Venus. The missions are scheduled for 2028 and 2030.
The missions are funded for $500 million each. The last mission from US on the planet was in 1990.
Nasa administrator Bill Nelson said, “These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world, capable of melting lead at the surface”
Venus is the second and the hottest planet in the solar system. The two missions are named Davinci+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) and Veritas (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy). The former mission will measure the planet’s atmosphere and find out how it evolved whereas the latter will understand its geological history to find out how it developed so different than earth.
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