In an effort to obtain more information from the planets that accompany the land in the Solar system, the POT has announced four possible missions that would become part of ‘Discovery’, a space agency program that seeks to increase the knowledge of mankind regarding celestial bodies that orbit the sun.
Through its official website, the POT published the four candidates that will begin the process in the near future. For the elections, the scientific value that could contribute to astronomers from the agency. The list includes the following projects:
- DAVINCI +: atmosphere research of Venus.
- VERITAS: surface mapping Venus to determine its geological history.
- Io Volcano Observer (IVO): development of the station that will study the moon of Jupiter, considered the most volcanically active star in the entire Solar system.
- TRIDENT: exploration of Triton, the icy moon of Neptune.
Regarding the planning of Discovery, Thomas Zurbuchen -administrator associated with the Directorate of Scientific Missions of the POT– mentioned that “Selected missions have the potential to transform our understanding of some of the most active and complex worlds of the Solar system“. The manager added that the exploration of any of these celestial bodies it will serve to discover how they came to exist in the cosmos.
Each project will have a financing of $ 3 million and a duration of nine months, time in which scientific teams must conceptualize the missions for later evaluation and choice with a view to starting his development.
The POT He explained in his post that Discovery “It aims to address urgent questions in the planetary science and increase our understanding of Solar system“
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