NASA wants you to get excited about Nightmare World Next Door.
This spring, the agency announced that they would be developing two new exploration missions Venus In the early thirties. One, called VERITAS (short for Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, Spectroscopy), orbits the planet, staring through thick clouds. The other, dubbed DAVINCI (Venus’s Deep Atmosphere Investigation in Noble Gases, Chemistry, and Imaging), will go one step further, dropping a high-tech probe that collapses through a sharp object. The atmosphere of Venus. Now, NASA has released a new video highlighting the DAVINCI mission and the science it will carry out on our twin planets.
“Venus is waiting for all of us, and Da Vinci is ready to take us there and ignite the rise of a new Venus,” said narrator Giada Arne, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Video.
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The video shows that the DAVINCI mission is scheduled to launch in 2029, and consists of two main parts. First, the main spacecraft, which will make two planetary flights to study its atmosphere and night surface. The spacecraft’s atmospheric work will focus on observing how it operates Clouds change over time and trying to identify a mysterious chemical that strangely absorbs ultraviolet light.
Meanwhile, night work will map the surface in infrared light, as the rock releases the heat it absorbs over the long night. Scientists hope the data will help them understand how the planet’s strange plateau formed.
Seven months after the two encounters, the probe will descend for an hour through the cloud, resending data along the way. As the spacecraft’s primary monitor, the probe will detect the composition, temperature, pressure and wind present in every layer of Venus’ atmosphere. Scientists hope that all of this data will help them not only better understand the planet, but also piece together its history – specifically, whether the world ever boasted about water.
Once the surface appears, the probe will also take high-resolution images of an area called the Alpha Regio Tesserae. The surface of Venus has lots of spots small piece of wood, in which the rock repeatedly cracks and bends in a way that occurs on Earth deep within the Earth’s crust. Scientists hope that by understanding the mosaics and how they ended up on the surface, they can better piece together the history of Venus.
Arne said the investigation would show humans “what it’s like to stand on Venus”. “The discoveries that emerge from this diverse data set will tell us whether Venus is really habitable.”
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