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NASA Announces Two New Missions to Venus, to Launch at the End of Decade

NASA announced two new missions to Venus on Wednesday that aims at learning how Earth's nearest planetary neighbour became a hellscape while our own thrived.

"These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world, capable of melting lead at the surface," said Bill Nelson, the agency's newly-confirmed administrator.