NASA has revelaed two new missions to Venus just yesterday that will takeoff at the end of the decade and are designed to study how Earth’s nearby planetary neighbor became a hells cape while our own flourished.
“These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world, capable of melting lead at the surface,” said Bill Nelson, the agency’s newly-appointed manager.
“They will offer the entire science community the chance to investigate a planet we haven’t been to in more than 30 years.”
The missions have been allotted around $500 million from NASA’s Discovery Program, and each is likely to takeoff in the 2028-2030 time period.
It will exactly measure the altitudes of noble gases and other elements to learn what brought escalation to the huge greenhouse effect we see today.
“It is astounding how little we know about Venus, but the combined results of these missions will tell us about the planet from the clouds in its sky through the volcanoes on its surface all the way down to its very core,” as stated by Tom Wagner, NASA’s Discovery Program scientist.
“It will be as if we have rediscovered the planet.”
