Ten Mysteries of Planet Venus | NASA Goddard

Ten Mysteries of Planet Venus | NASA Goddard

The surface of Venus is completely inhospitable for life: barren, dry, crushed under an atmosphere about 90 times the pressure of Earth’s and roasted by temperatures two times hotter than an oven. 

Was it always that way? Could Venus once have been a twin of Earth—a habitable world with liquid water oceans? This is one of the many mysteries associated with our shrouded sister world.

Twenty-nine years have passed since NASA’s Magellan mission last orbited Venus. It was NASA’s most recent mission to Earth’s sister planet. While we have gained significant knowledge of Venus since then, there are still numerous mysteries about the planet that remain unsolved. NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) mission hopes to change that.

NASA’s newest Discovery missions to Venus: https://go.nasa.gov/NewVenusMissions

Learn more about NASA's DAVINCI Mission

https://lnkd.in/gHEv6ZVA

Learn more about NASA's proposed VERITAS Mission (subject to federal funding and public support)

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/veritas/

Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

James Tralie (ADNET):

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Brooke Hess (NASA/Interns):

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William Steigerwald (NASA/GSFC):

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James Garvin (NASA, Chief Scientist Goddard):

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Giada Arney (NASA):

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Stephanie Getty (NASA/GSFC):

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Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: Oct. 20, 2021

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