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NASA DAVINCI Mission’s Many ‘Firsts’ to Unlock Venus’ Hidden Secrets
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NASA’s DAVINCI probe will be first in the 21st century to brave Venus’ atmosphere as it descends from above the planet down to its surface.

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Leader of NASA’s VERITAS Mission Honored With AGU’s Whipple Award
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Suzanne Smrekar, geophysicist and principal investigator of the agency’s upcoming VERITAS mission to Venus, is NASA JPL’s first recipient of the prestigious award. Suzanne Smrekar, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, received the Fred…

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5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun
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With NASA’s fleet of heliophysics spacecraft, scientists monitor our Sun and investigate its influences throughout the solar system. However, the fleet’s constant watch and often-unique perspectives sometimes create opportunities to make discoveries that no one expected, helping us to solve…

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Final Venus Flyby for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Queues Closest Sun Pass
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On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within 233 miles (376 km) of Venus’ surface. The flyby will adjust Parker’s trajectory into its final orbital configuration, bringing the spacecraft…

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Old Data Yields New Secrets as NASA’s DAVINCI Preps for Venus Trip
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How NASA’s DAVINCI mission to Venus uses old data to reveal new secrets.

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Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA’s Magellan Data
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An analysis of data from Magellan’s radar finds two volcanoes erupted in the early 1990s. This adds to the 2023 discovery of a different active volcano in Magellan data. Direct geological evidence of recent volcanic activity on Venus has been…

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Venus on Earth: NASA’s VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic Iceland
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The JPL-led international team used the island as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet’s ground truth. With its crushing atmospheric pressure, clouds of sulfuric acid, and searing surface temperature, Venus is an…

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NASA’s Magellan Data Reveals Volcanic Activity on Venus
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In a first, scientists have seen direct evidence of active volcanism on Earth’s twin, setting the stage for the agency’s VERITAS mission to investigate.

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Study Finds Venus’ ‘Squishy’ Outer Shell May Be Resurfacing the Planet
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The research uses archival NASA data to show that Venus may be losing heat from geologic activity in regions called coronae, possibly like early tectonic activity on Earth.

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NASA Study: Massive Volcanism May Have Altered Ancient Venus’ Climate
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Volcanic activity lasting hundreds to thousands of centuries and erupting massive amounts of material may have helped transform Venus from a temperate and wet world to the acidic hothouse it is today, a NASA paper suggests. The paper also discusses…

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