Nasa has announced two new robotic missions to Venus after decades of exploring other worlds (Nasa/JPL-Caltech/AP)Nasa has announced two robotic missions to Venus after decades of exploring other worlds. “These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface,” Mr Nelson said. “It will be as if we have rediscovered the planet.”In case you missed today's #StateOfNASA announcement: we're returning to the planet Venus! In today's #StateOfNASA address, Administrator @SenBillNelson announced two new @NASASolarSystem missions to study the planet Venus. In 1989, Nasa used a space shuttle to send its Magellan spacecraft into orbit around Venus.

Source: Irish Independent June 03, 2021 02:20 UTC