NASA announces four finalists for upcoming 'Discovery Missions'

18 Feb 2020

NASA announces four finalists for upcoming ‘Discovery Missions’

NASA announces four finalists for upcoming ‘Discovery Missions’NASA has recently announced the four finalists team for its upcoming 'Discovery Missions'.

The four teams must develop their mission plans within 9 months with the help of a grant of US$3 million each.
 	After 9 months, each team will have to submit a study report to NASA, will be evaluated.
 	After this process, they will select 2 teams out of the four and NASA will fully fund their plans. This final selection will happen in 2021.
 	These missions will help in exploring celestial bodies* and help us in understanding their existence in our universe.

What are the four discovery missions that NASA is considering here?

VERITAS or Venus Emissivity:  This is to gather information about Venus' surface.

DAVINCI+ or Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry and Imaging Plus: This is to focus on the Venus atmosphere.

Volcanic Io: This mission aims to study Jupiter's moon Io.

Trident: A mission to study Neptune's moon Triton in detail.

*Celestial bodies: Natural object which is located outside of Earth's atmosphere such as the Moon, the Sun etc.

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