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NASA has announced missions to Earth’s nearest neighbour Venus.
After decades of exploring other planets and moons, the space agency is returning its sights to the solar system’s hottest planet, which it last visited with its Magellan spacecraft in orbit in 1989.
NASA’s new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced the missions during his first major address to employees on Wednesday.
One mission named DaVinci Plus will analyse the thick, cloudy Venusian atmosphere in an attempt to determine whether the inferno planet ever had an ocean and was possibly habitable.
The other, Veritas, will seek a geologic history by mapping the rocky planet s surface.