{"id":123451,"date":"2021-06-05T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/why-nasas-return-to-venus-could-help-save-the-earth"},"modified":"2021-06-05T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T20:22:18","slug":"why-nasas-return-to-venus-could-help-save-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/why-nasas-return-to-venus-could-help-save-the-earth","title":{"rendered":"Why NASA\u2019s return to Venus could help save the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X57ebvnkwxQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The space agency is launching two missions to study Venus\u2019 atmosphere and geological history.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cI did a lot of screaming and jumping up and down,\u201d Grinspoon tells <em>Inverse. \u201c<\/em>I scared my dog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, NASA <a class href=\" https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/nasa-venus-veritas-davinci\">selected<\/a> both DAVINCI+ and another <a class href=\" https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/venus-how-rocket-labs-rocket-could-transform\">Venus<\/a> mission, VERITAS, to study the planet\u2019s <a class href=\" https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/why-does-venus-atmosphere-spin-much-faster-than-the-planet\">atmosphere<\/a> and <a class href=\" https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/58824-venus-exploration-forgotten-planet-where-did-all-the-water-go\">geological history<\/a>. It will mark a return to Venus after decades away.<\/p>\n<p>By returning to Venus, it could answer questions both intriguing, like if Venus ever had the right conditions for life, and existential, like if Venus is a vision of our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The space agency is launching two missions to study Venus\u2019 atmosphere and geological history. \u201cI did a lot of screaming and jumping up and down,\u201d Grinspoon tells Inverse. \u201cI scared my dog.\u201d On Wednesday, NASA selected both DAVINCI+ and another Venus mission, VERITAS, to study the planet\u2019s atmosphere and geological history. It will mark a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}