NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbor, after decades of exploring other worlds.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA is returning to sizzlingThe space agency's new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new robotic missions to the solar system's hottest planet, during his first major address to employees Wednesday.became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface,” Nelson said.ian atmosphere in an attempt to determine whether the inferno planet ever had an ocean and was possibly habitable.
The missions beat out two other proposed projects, to Jupiter's moon Io and Neptune's icy moon Triton.in the early days of space exploration. NASA's Mariner 2 performed the first successful flyby in 1962, and the Soviets' Venera 7 made the first successful landing in 1970.The European Space Agency put a spacecraft aroundThe Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Department of Science Education.
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