NASA is returning to Venus to learn how it became a hot poisonous wasteland – and whether the planet was ever habitable in the past
- Written by Paul K. Byrne, Associate Professor of Planetary Science, North Carolina State University
Two new NASA missions hope to answer important questions about Venus' past.NASA/JPL/USGSNASA is finally headed back to Venus. On June 2, 2021, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced that the agency had selected two winners of its latest Discovery class spacecraft mission competition, and both are headed to the second planet from the Sun.