NASA and other space agencies around the world have been focusing a lot of their attention on Mars as of late. It makes sense, since Mars is the planet most like Earth, and it's the one planet that, as far as we know, had the best chance of hosting life at some point in its past. Venus, which today is a toxic hellscape with temperatures pushing 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and a thick atmosphere that would choke us out in a heartbeat, is a rocky world like Earth and Mars, but it's most certainly not compatible with life as we know it. Where did it all go wrong? That's what NASA wants to find out.
In a new announcement, NASA reveals that it has selected two new missions that will head to Venus to study its atmosphere and geology. The missions — called DAVINCI+ and VERITAS — aim to answer some of the biggest questions about Earth's other neighbor and perhaps even shed some light on how Earth was lucky enough to be compatible with life.
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