Building a New Understanding of Venus: NASA's DAVINCI Mission

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Our nearest neighbor in our inner solar system, Venus is at present a dramatically inhospitable planet, characterized by sulfuric acid clouds, crushing pressures, and searing temperatures near its volcanically scarred surface. Recent modeling suggest that Venus may have been host to a benign, water-rich environment earlier in its history, and perhaps for the majority of its history. Investigations of present-day Venus are required to resolve questions that have remained unanswered for decades about the planet’s origin, atmospheric and surface geologic evolution, and history of water. Dr. Stephanie Getty describes the DAVINCI mission that will launch in June of 2029 and combine flyby remote sensing with a transect to the Venus atmosphere to resolve gaps in our knowledge of atmospheric composition and provide unprecedented imagery of a tessera region that may record signatures of a more habitable, oceanic past Venus.

Dr. Stephanie Getty is a research planetary scientist and the Director of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She serves as Deputy Principal Investigator of the DAVINCI mission to Venus, which will launch for its mission in 2029. She is also a science team member of the Rosalind Franklin (ExoMars) Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA) that is slated to launch to Oxia Planum, Mars in 2028. Dr. Getty has been a researcher at NASA Goddard since 2004, with a focus on developing in situ analytical instrumentation for understanding the composition, habitability, and astrobiology of planetary environments.