DAVINCI Stories
NASA Instrument to Measure Temperature, Pressure, and Wind on Venus
The VASI (Venus Atmospheric Structure Investigation) instrument aboard NASA’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging, or DAVINCI, mission to Venus, together with the other instruments on this mission, aims to investigate Venus’ mysterious atmosphere by painting…
Stephanie Getty: Exploring the Universe with Curiosity and Wonder
Name: Dr. Stephanie Getty Title: Director of the Solar System Exploration Division, Sciences and Exploration Directorate and Deputy Principal Investigator of the DAVINCI Mission Formal Job Classification: Planetary scientist Organization: Solar System Exploration Division, Sciences and Exploration Directorate (Code 690)…
Student-Built, Dime-Sized Instrument Is Venus-bound on NASA’s DAVINCI
Venus Oxygen Fugacity (VfOx) is a small, button-sized sensor aboard NASA’s DAVINCI mission to Venus’ atmosphere that will be designed, fabricated, tested, operated, and analyzed by undergraduate and graduate students as the mission’s Student Collaboration Experiment. Planned for launch in…
Meet VMS – the briefcase-sized chemistry lab headed to Venus
Short for Venus Mass Spectrometer, VMS is one of five instruments aboard the DAVINCI descent probe. Launching in 2029, DAVINCI will be the first US probe mission to enter Venus’ atmosphere in over 40 years. The goal of the mission…
NASA’s DAVINCI Explores Ten Mysteries of Venus
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. But was it always that way? Could Venus…
Then There Were 3: NASA to Collaborate on ESA’s New Venus Mission
On June 10, 2021, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the selection of EnVision as its newest medium-class science mission. EnVision will make detailed observations of Venus to understand its history and especially understand the connections between the atmosphere and geologic…
NASA Goddard Team Selected to Design Concept for Probe of Mysterious Venus Atmosphere
A proposed mission called DAVINCI+ could one day fly the first U.S. spacecraft since 1978 to study the atmosphere of Venus. On Feb. 13, NASA announced that DAVINCI+, named after the visionary Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, is…