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VERITAS Program

NASA VERITAS is a planned Discovery mission led and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to study Venus surface and interior with radar, topography, emissivity, and spectroscopy. NASA describes the mission as future and currently planned to launch no earlier than 2031; it will return the first new high-resolution global data about Venus surface since the 1990s.

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VERITASVenus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography and SpectroscopyVERITAS mission
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spaceflight
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VERITAS Program
Status
planned
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explorationscienceresearchdevelopment

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NASA VERITAS is a planned Discovery mission led and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to study Venus surface and interior with radar, topography, emissivity, and spectroscopy. NASA describes the mission as future and currently planned to launch no earlier than 2031; it will return the first new high-resolution global data about Venus surface since the 1990s.
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Creation Time
August 13, 2026 at 13:00:13 UTC
Updated Time
August 13, 2026 at 13:00:13 UTC

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