NASA’s VERITAS mission is one of three expected to head to Venus in the next decade. Budget shortages forced NASA to postpone the VERITAS mission. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech SPACE — Three major missions to Planet Venus have been long overdue. However, recently NASA has announced the postponement of one of its closest missions to the blazing … Read more
Venus’ atmosphere traps heat from the sun as an extreme version of the greenhouse effect that warms the Earth. The temperature on Venus is hot enough to melt lead. Image: ARTUR PLAWGO / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images SPACE — Venus, the second planet from the sun, is the hottest and brightest planet in … Read more
VERITAS’ mission has now been forced to be postponed due to a large withdrawal of funding. Photo/IFL Science. JAKARTA – Mission NASA a visit to Venus via the VERITAS mission turned out to be on the rocks. Because the funding provided for the mission has actually been withdrawn. As a result, NASA’s desire to be … Read more
CONDITION The planet, which is called the Morning Star because of its brightness level, is like a star in a dark sky, but it is not as beautiful as it seems. Venus, which is considered to be Earth’s twin, turns out to have both active volcanoes. Robert Herrick from the Geophysics Institute at the University … Read more
The Soviet Union’s Venera lander lingered on Venus for several hours when it made a desperate touchdown. Now NASA wants to try new luck. Image: NASA SPACE — The surface of Venus is a terrible place. However, that won’t stop NASA landers from trying to explore it. A new NASA video claims that Venus is … Read more
Jakarta – So far, Mercury is known as the planet closest to the sun. But does this close distance from the sun make Mercury the hottest planet? Quoted from detikEdu, the hottest planet in our solar system is Venus. The second closest planet to the Sun has an average surface temperature of about 450°C! But … Read more