Science and Exploration

DAVINCI’s Big Reveal – NASA’s Deep Dive into Mystifying Venus

By Leonard David
SpaceRef
October 27, 2023
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DAVINCI’s Big Reveal – NASA’s Deep Dive into Mystifying Venus
DAVINCI will provide the first first-hand look of Venus’s surface.
Image credit: NASA.

Work is underway on developing a literal “new entry” in deciphering the origin, evolution, and present state of Venus. NASA’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging mission is mercifully abbreviated to DAVINCI. But that longhand name underscores the constant swirl of ongoing questions about Earth’s sister planet.

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Leonard David

Leonard is author of Moon Rush: The New Space Race, Mars – Our Future on the Red Planet, and co-authored with Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin of Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration - all published by the National Geographic Society.