Venus hides a wealth of information that
could help us better understand Earth and exoplanets, or those planets outside
our solar system. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designing mission concepts to
survive the planet's extreme temperatures and atmospheric pressure. This image
is a composite of data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus
Orbiter.
Venus is Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. The
two new Discovery Program missions to study our neighbor aim to understand how
Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics
similar to ours – and may have been the first habitable world in the solar
system, complete with an ocean and Earth-like climate.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/studying-the-lost-habitable-world-of-venus
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