Why is Venus so different? Several scientific instruments are to explore our neighboring planet. ESA has now awarded the ...

NASA Deep Atmosphere of Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging” (DAVINCI) will launch to Venus in 2029 ...

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Just days after the launch of Venera 5 in 1969, the Soviet Union launched Venera 6 to continue exploration of Venus. The mission ... Together the Venera 5 and 6 probe data allowed a more precise ...

Credit: NASA Venus as viewed from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech It's unknown when, exactly, these planet-altering events began. It could have been several ...

Their mission design revolves around two spacecraft joined together for launch and approach to Venus but then breaking apart into wildly different orbits. One of them, Demeter, is responsible for ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life. "We're trying to figure out how much mass is reaching Venus from Earth, and how many cells can that mass carry," Emma Guinan, first author of a ...

But what about Venus, one of Earth’s closest neighbors, or planets and moons even farther away? Scientists and space agencies ...

“We needed nine flybys (one at Earth, two at Venus, and six at Mercury) to slow down our spacecraft and bring it into a good position to enter the orbit of Mercury.” Sequence of 89 images ...