Momentum is building to explore Venus

Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is the principal investigator on a proposed mission to Venus that would drop a probe through its atmosphere. It is a crucial question now that astronomers have uncovered thousands of planets outside our Solar System — many of which are rocky worlds that orbit their stars at distances similar to those of Venus and Earth from the Sun. That is why Suzanne Smrekar, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has her eye on Venus — especially some spots that look eerily similar to locations on Earth where subduction is happening now.

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