It’s a star! It’s a UFO! Nope it’s most likely Venus. If you’ve ever gone outside for a late walk and found a huge beautiful intense “star” in the sky, it’s likely that you were taking a look at Venus. The planet is called after the Roman goddess of love, and NASA is providing Venus a little extra love right now: It remains in the procedure of assessing 2 possible objectives to the planet, and both of them have the potential to improve our understanding of how terrestrial planets form, Venus in specific. Venus is covered in a thick environment primarily made up of co2 gas created in part by a runaway greenhouse gas result. Hidden listed below this cloud cover is the most volcanic planet in the solar system.
The 2 proposed Venus missions are each extremely different and each would accomplish something distinct. The first is VERITAS or (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy). This orbiter would map the surface of Venus to much better comprehend the complex features and help determine more about Venus’s plate tectonics and whether Venus is still geologically active. The o