Why is Venus so different? Several scientific instruments are to explore our neighboring planet. ESA has now awarded the ...

Since the 2010s, Venus has become the sole domain of Japan’s JAXA, with Akatsuki (‘Dawn’) still in orbit, but beyond that nothing but telescopes pointed at our sister planet. Venus also has ...

Dr. Lorenz is a NASA participating scientist on the JAXA Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter and on InSight at Mars, a co-investigator for the SuperCam microphone experiment on Perseverance, and lead for ...