NASA hopes to land on Venus in June 2031

NASA plans to land on Venus in June 2031, a mission that will study the planet for the first time in spaceflight and with a lander probe, scientist James Garvin said Monday.

“Our mission will launch in 2029, fly around the Sun twice, mapping Venus each time, and land in June 2031,” DAVINCI said in a statement.

James Garvin is one of the participants in the Global Exploration Summit (GLEX), a summit that over the next four days brings scientists and researchers from several countries to the Azores to share scientific discoveries in the oceans, space and land. land, but also to discuss future missions in these areas.

According to the chief scientist of the US agency NASA, about 2,000 people are involved in this mission, including partners from other countries, a project with a budget of one billion dollars (about 956 million euros).

James Garvin also considered Venus to be Earth’s “sister planet” which had oceans but disappeared, and it is important to understand the causes of this phenomenon through observations to be made by the DAVINCI mission.

In practice, the mission will include an analytical chemistry laboratory that will, for the first time, measure indicators of Venus’s atmospheric and climate system, some of which have already been measured since the early 1980s.

NASA also hopes that DAVINCI will provide the first image of the descent of the mountainous regions of Venus, mapping its rocky composition and surface topography at scales that cannot be obtained from its orbit.

The mission will also enable measurements of undiscovered gases, including components that could help reveal the presence of water in the form of oceans of liquid water or steam in the early atmosphere.

The organization announced that the third GLEX Summit, a joint organization of the Explorers Club of New York and the Portuguese Expanding World, will bring together “the world’s greatest living legends of explorers” over the next four days.

More than 50 speakers from various disciplines include astronaut Michael López-Alegria, commander of the first private flight to the International Space Station, Bertrand Picard, Swiss explorer and solar aviation pioneer, and Rosalie López, Brazilian astronomer who discovered more active volcanoes.

The roughly 40 scheduled sessions that will take place in Ponta Delgada will also include Siam Proctor, the first black commercial astronaut to fly a spacecraft, and Borge Ousland, a Norwegian explorer who made the first crossing of Antarctica without

The Explorers Club was founded in New York in 1904 and has about 3,000 members, and among them for decades there are people who first visited places such as the North Pole, South Pole, the Moon, the top of Mount Everest and the deepest point of the ocean, known in the Mariana Trench.