A fleeting visit of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Venus has revealed surprising insights into how gases are stripped away from the upper layers of the planet’s atmosphere.
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Posted inAstrobiology (general), Missions & Hardware
Corrected And Updated Version Of NASA’s Astrobiology Fleet Chart (update)
Editor’s note: This Astrobiology Fleet chart was shown by David Grinspoon and Shawn Domagal-Goldman on 22 Mar 2024 at an AAS Goddard Memorial Science Meeting. It is rather incomplete and […]
Posted inAstrogeology, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Missions & Hardware, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release, Terraforming & Geoengineering, Venus
ESA Approves EnVision Mission To Venus – The Closest Planet To Earth
ESA’s next mission to Venus was officially ‘adopted’ today by the Agency’s Science Programme Committee. EnVision will study Venus from its inner core to its outer atmosphere, giving important new […]
Posted inAnalog Studies, Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Astrogeology, Away Teams & Field Reports, Status Report, Venus
Expedition Veritas: Away Team Visits To A Variety Of Terrains
One of the main goals of the Expedition VERITAS campaign was to create a “library” of as many different volcanic surface textures as possible to use as a reference for […]
Posted inAnalog Studies, Astrogeology, Away Teams & Field Reports, Caves, Craters, Mountains, Subsurface, Lava Tubes, Exploration Gear & Tech, Press Release, Venus
Expedition VERITAS – Away Team Mission On Volcanic Terrain In Iceland As An Analog For Venus
Why were we in such a remote place to do field work? To use Iceland’s volcanic terrain as a stand-in, or “analog”, for Venus. By studying the geology of Iceland’s […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Imaging & Spectroscopy, SETI & Technosignatures, Status Report
A VERITAS/Breakthrough Listen Search for Optical Technosignatures
The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is conducting a program using multiple telescopes around the world to search for “technosignatures”: artificial transmitters of extraterrestrial origin from beyond our solar system.
Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report, Venus
Approaches for Retrieving Sulfur Species Abundances from Dual X/Ka Band Radio Occultations of Venus with EnVision and VERITAS
The EnVision and VERITAS missions to Venus will fly with X and Ka band telecommunications channels which can be used to conduct radio occultation studies of Venus’ atmosphere.
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Press Release, Venus
Hunting For Venus 2.0
With the first paper compiling all known information about planets like Venus beyond our solar system, scientists are the closest they’ve ever been to finding an analog of Earth’s “twin.”