As NASA announces two missions to Venus, here's what it hopes to find

#NASA has announced two new orbiter missions to Venus, expected to fly in five years. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh explains why the agency is sending spacecraft there, what is unique about the planet, whether it can sustain life, and why we want to study it to understand our own future. Watch in #PureScience.

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Another long term mission objective as cited by NASA for these missions is to draw meaningful insights to apply to our future studies of Exoplanets, with James Webb girding up its loins, we are expected to discover myriads of Venus doppelgangers in near future!!

[venkatarohitpunyapu]

Another Fact: There's also a plateau on Venus named after Goddess Lakshmi, Lakshmi Planum

[praseninamdar]

Women are from Venus men from Mars...time we explored more of Venus to understand why its hotter ...thanks for the show!

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[northern]

Good work, Sandhya. thanks 4 the update

[ramkumarr]

1:19 Slide error. Spectroscopy as she says and not spectrography.

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When the Davinci probe is descending, will it take pictures of the surface before crashing

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If there is substantial subterranean frozen or liquid water on Mars can this mission locate, analyze and send pictures of it?

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How can there be liquid water when the surface temperature is 465 degrees Celsius? Does the high atmospheric pressure keep water liquid inspite of high temperatures? Kindly clarify.

[noyonsense]

Will all this research be useful to us in the long run? I wonder, if how and when!

[boyfrombendakaluru]

Do make a video on "Artificial Sun experiment" carried out by china recently!!

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Hey, sorry I'm late, I really don't understand anything about science, but what do I care? You could keep explaining and I'll understand anything you explain.

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When a girl is beautiful and still decides to study science over making tik tok videos for likes and views, I say hats off. She knows what she says.

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[evriahi]

Going to Venus is the right place to go. It is nearly the same size and mass as the Earth thus once the atmosphere problem is corrected, planetary engineering, it would be the ideal place to live since it has essentially the same gravity field as the Earth.

[hamish]

Its a very worrying thing NASA are so interested in Venus.

[qriosity]

Please ask your host to correct herself. In the first line she said "we" are sending a spacecraft to Venus, which according to journalistic style signifies ISRO. But it's actually NASA which is sending the spacecraft. Ms. Sandhya please don't think yourself as a global citizen we are Indians first.