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Stricken NASA mission VERITAS in prolonged wait to kick off ‘decade of Venus’

Nature Astronomy volume 7, pages 1404–1406 (2023)Cite this article

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Budget pressures at NASA, specifically arising from the increasing costs of several planetary science mission programmes, have rendered the Venus orbiter VERITAS as collateral damage. Currently on subsistence funding, mission scientists worry about the impact of ongoing delays on Venus exploration.

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Fig. 1: Venus as seen by the Mariner 10 spacecraft.

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Fig. 2: VERITAS science team members camped and worked in Iceland in August 2023.

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Kuthunur, S. Stricken NASA mission VERITAS in prolonged wait to kick off ‘decade of Venus’. Nat Astron 7, 1404–1406 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-023-02167-7

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