NASA is finally going back to Venus, for the first time in more than three decades. And a second time too.
On Wednesday, Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator, announced the agency¡¯s latest choices for robotic planetary missions, both expected to head to Venus in the late 2020s: DAVINCI+ and VERITAS.
¡°These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface,¡± Nelson said during his ¡°State of NASA¡± address to the space agency¡¯s workforce.
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