NASA Teases New ‘VERITAS’ Mission To Explore Earth’s Super-Hot Sister Planet - Forbes

An artist's concept of active volcanos on Venus, depicting a subduction zone where the foreground ...

VERITAS would be the first mission to study the Venusian surface since 1994 when NASA’s Magellan spacecraft finished examining the planet’s geology.

This artist's concept shows the proposed VERITAS spacecraft using its radar to produce ...

By transforming our understanding of the internal geodynamics that shaped Venus, VERITAS could help help planetary scientists better understand Earth’s evolution as well as rocky planets orbiting other stars

Some of the biggest mysteries about Venus that VERITAS could shed some light on include: 

“To unwrap the mysteries of Venus we have to look under the hood at Venus’ interior; it is the engine for global geologic and atmospheric evolution,” said Smrekar

“Are Venus and Earth fundamentally unique worlds