The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced its plans to venture across space and visit one of our neighboring worlds. The agency's target is Venus, whose probes will examine the planet's atmosphere, which is believed to be covered with extremely corrosive compounds such as clouds of sulfuric acid.
ISRO Announces Visit to Venus in 2025
IN SPACE - JUNE 5: In this handout image provided by NASA, the SDO satellite captures an ultra-high-definition image of the Transit of Venus across the face of the sun on June 5, 2012, from space. The last transit was in 2004, and the next pair of events will not happen again until 2117 and 2125.
The ISRO is set to send one of India's independent spacecraft to hover across the depths of space and orbit the skies of the planet Venus. The mission serves as a major leap for the country in space exploration and might be one of the breakthroughs that our age will see through.
The announcement was relayed by the ISRO chairperson and India's Department of Space secretary, Shri Somanath. According to the expert, the focus of the launch is to unveil what lies beneath the planet's thick, toxic clouds. The mission will commence in 2025 and will be joined by the French space agency National Center for Space Studies (CNES).
ISRO's development of the Venus project is expected to be completed by December 2024. Following the signal, an orbital maneuver would take place to test the crafts for the mission before the actual launch.
The orbital maneuver is a spaceflight process in which the propulsion systems are controlled to shift the orbit of a vessel. It is one of the many methods necessary for a spacecraft to enter a planet's orbit safely and without any issues.
The year 2025 was selected by the scientists as a great alignment would occur between the position of Earth and Venus. Through this phenomenon, the crafts that would be utilized for the mission would require minimal propellant. The following window for this perfect opportunity would take place in 2031.
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First Sub-Surface Observation on Venus
The project report for the mission is already set, Somanath said. The constructions and calculations required to visit the hottest planet of the solar system would be completed by India in just a short amount of time as the technology is already available in the country, the chair continued.
Aside from India, other countries are also set to enter Venus, including the United States and China. All of these upcoming missions would give a closer perspective of the mysteries that lie on the surface of the planet and the reason why it became an orb of an inferno.
ISRO plans to examine available approaches that would effectively let us observe the planet and gather data from it. Somanath emphasized that they will also conduct unique studies to prevent the repetition of research that other scientists and agencies have already done.
The space agency is also planning to use a specialized high-resolution synthetic aperture radar to let us see Venus's actual surface despite the sulfuric clouds that block the view, making 2025 the first-ever mission to observe the planet on a few hundred meters of sub-surface level, ScrollIn reports.
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