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VERITAS will be the first NASA spacecraft to explore Earth’s sister planet Venus since the 1990s. The spacecraft will discover the secrets of a lost habitable world on Venus, gathering data to reveal how the paths of Venus and Earth diverged.

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Mission type: Venus Orbiter

Partners: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Italian Space Agency (ASI), France’s Centre National

Launch: TBD

Illustration of the surface of Venus. Credit: NASA GSFC Conceptual Image Lab

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