{"id":24028,"date":"2020-07-09T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/scientists-want-nasa-to-swing-by-venus-before-heading-to-mars\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T15:01:00","slug":"scientists-want-nasa-to-swing-by-venus-before-heading-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/scientists-want-nasa-to-swing-by-venus-before-heading-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"#Scientists want NASA to swing by Venus before heading to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Scientists want NASA to swing by Venus before heading to Mars<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n By Chris Ciaccia, Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

July 9, 2020 |<\/span> 11:01am <\/p>\n

\n NASA has plans to send manned missions to Mars in the 2030s, but before astronauts get there, they should stop by Venus first.<\/p>\n

Those are the sentiments expressed in a new paper written by a number of researchers, who believe that going to the second planet in the Solar System could have benefits for a manned mission to the Red Planet. Those include reducing \u201cthe overall energy requirements for opposition-class missions to Mars,\u201d with the added benefits of reducing cost, as well as going to a second planet.<\/p>\n

\u201cA human Venus flyby is not only a \u2018free\u2019 add-on, but a beneficial addition to any opposition-class Mars mission architecture,\u201d the researchers wrote in the paper. \u201cAs a result, if NASA\u2019s first mission to Mars is an opposition-class mission, it is likely that this mission will also include a flyby of Venus.\u201d<\/p>\n

They continued: \u201cThere is reason to be excited by this \u2018two planets for the price of one-plus\u2019 app<\/a>roach. A dedicated year-long Venus flyby mission could serve as a valuable \u2018shakedown cruise\u2019 for the deep-space transport systems needed for the first human mission to Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n

The researchers are from a number of different organizations and universities, including Johns Hopkins University, NASA JPL and the Southwest Research Institute, which manages NASA\u2019s New Horizons missions.<\/p>\n

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An imagined scene of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst viewing Venus during a flyby.<\/span>Izenberg et al.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not only are there potential economic benefits to using Venus\u2019 gravity for missions to Mars, but it could also be done on a more regular basis, the researchers added.<\/p>\n

\u201cVenus, on average, is much closer to Earth (1.12 AU) than Mars (1.69 AU), allows for shorter overall mission durations (thus simplifying crew logistics and time in space) and has more frequent planetary alignments than Mars (every 19 months versus 26 months for Mars),\u201d they explained.<\/p>\n

One AU, or astronomical unit, is approximately 93 million miles, or the distance between the Earth and the sun.<\/p>\n

A flyby mission of Venus could take less than a year \u2014\u201dshorter than some missions to the International Space Station,\u201d the experts wrote, but it would expose the astronauts to \u201chigher solar radiation levels comparable to those on a flight to Mars, albeit slightly reduced galactic cosmic radiation due to solar shielding.\u201d<\/p>\n

The paper has been submitted for peer review at Acta Astronautica.<\/p>\n

Venus, which has been called \u201cEarth\u2019s evil twin,\u201d has an extremely harsh climate, with a surface temperature of 864 degrees Fahrenheit. It\u2019s likely too hot to support life, but NASA has recently said that it intends to explore the planet.<\/p>\n

In late 2019, NASA said it was working on a stingray-like spacecraft to explore the planet, which has more volcanoes than any other celestial body in the Solar System.<\/p>\n

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Science<\/a> enabled and maximized by Human-crewed Venus flyby.<\/span>APL\/Caleb Heidel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A study published in September 2019 suggested that Venus may have been habitable for a few billion years \u2014 until something mysterious happened.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s next mission to Mars involves the recently renamed Perseverance rover, scheduled to launch \u201cno earlier than July 30.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Perseverance rover will attempt to detect if there is any fossilized evidence of extraterrestrial beings, in addition to other tasks.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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