VERITAS
(Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy, Discovery 15)
(planned NASA Venus orbiter)
VERITAS,
for Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy,
is a planned NASA space mission to orbit Venus for three years.
(InSAR is interferometric synthetic aperture radar, one of the techniques the mission is to use.)
The plan was selected in 2021 as a Discovery Program mission,
for a 2028 launch. Instruments:
- VEM - Venus Emissivity Mapper.
- VISAR - Venus Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar.
Note that VERITAS is also the name of an existing Arizona
gamma-ray telescope array.
(spacecraft,Venus,NASA,plan)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VERITAS_(spacecraft)
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-2-missions-to-study-lost-habitable-world-of-venus
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/veritas-exploring-the-deep-truths-of-venus
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=VERITAS
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/veritas
https://dataverse.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:2014/55656
Referenced by page:
VERITAS
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