Jan 22, 2025 · Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and the sixth largest planet. It’s the hottest planet in our solar system. Venus is a cloud-swaddled planet and our nearest planetary neighbor. It has a surface hot enough to melt lead. Get the Facts

Jan 22, 2025 · Venus is similar in structure and size to Earth, and is sometimes called Earth’s evil twin. Its thick atmosphere traps heat in a runaway greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet in our solar system with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead.

Dec 16, 2024 · Dozens of spacecraft have launched to explore Venus, but not all have been successful. NASA’s Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to visit any planet beyond Earth when it flew past Venus on Dec. 14, 1962. NASA is planning two …

Dec 16, 2024 · Scheduled to launch in the early 2030s, NASA’s DAVINCI mission will explore Venus with both a spacecraft and a descent probe. Discover more about this mission to Venus!

Dec 9, 2024 · VERITAS, and another mission called DAVINCI, will be the first NASA spacecraft to explore Venus since the 1990s. Veritas will discover the secrets of a lost habitable world, gathering data to reveal how the paths of Venus and Earth diverged.

The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft.... Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken...

Dec 16, 2024 · NASA’s DAVINCI — Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging — mission embodies the spirit of innovation and exploration that its namesake, Leonardo da Vinci, was famous for.

Nov 3, 2024 · By what processes did Venus lose its oceans and magnetic field, and how and when did plate tectonics shape its surface? To find the answers, NASA’s VERITAS mission will study the planet’s surface, and its interior with a powerful new generation of scientific tools.

Venus. As it sped away from Venus, NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this seemingly peaceful view of a planet the size of Earth, wrapped in a dense, global cloud layer. But, contrary to its serene appearance, the clouded globe of Venus is a world of intense heat, crushing atmospheric pressure and clouds of corrosive acid.

Jul 24, 2023 · Volcanic activity lasting hundreds to thousands of centuries and erupting massive amounts of material may have helped transform Venus from a temperate and wet world to the acidic hothouse it is today, a NASA paper suggests.