With intense heat and a crushing atmosphere, Venus is really hard to study. So NASA is getting creative. The space agency announced two missions, DAVINCI and VERITAS, will explore and learn about the planet hopefully by the end of the decade. We wanted to learn all about DAVINCI and VERITAS so we reached out to Dr. Eric Jensen, Professor of Astronomy at Swarthmore College to talk about what the hopes are for these missions, what could be learned and why Venus seems to be having a moment when it comes to attention from scientists.
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