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. The announcements were made in June of 2021 but Venus specialists have just started to celebrate them at this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference calling the timeframe of the missions"the decade of Venus.
The NASA missions will be called VERITAS and DAVINCI, while ESA's will be called EnVision. VERITAS will hopefully launch in 2027 and will aim to give researchers the first glimpse of Venus' surface since the end of the Magellan mission. The mission will also seek to collect data about rock composition, geologic activity, and the planet's core.
VERITAS will also host the Venus Emissivity Mapper which will be complemented by a near-twin fly on EnVision. This mission is targeting launch in the early 2030s. Meanwhile, DAVINCI, which is targeting launch in 2030, will focus on Venus' atmosphere and is composed of a main spacecraft and an atmospheric probe.Stay ahead with the latest science, technology and innovation news, for free:
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