{"id":1791231,"date":"2021-06-09T18:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T22:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791231"},"modified":"2021-06-09T18:55:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T22:55:24","slug":"veritas-mission-to-map-venus-later-this-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/06\/veritas-mission-to-map-venus-later-this-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"VERITAS Mission to Map Venus Later This Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artist\u2019s concept of the VERITAS mission (NASA\/JPL-Caltech).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VERITAS<\/a> is one of two missions to Venus announced by NASA last week<\/a>. Expected to launch between 2028 and 2030, VERITAS will produce an improved map of the Venusian surface with its two instruments: synthetic aperture radar to generate a high-resolution 3D topographic map, and a spectral emissions mapper to map rock types. News coverage: CNN<\/a>, Global News<\/a>, Slate<\/a><\/em>, The Verge<\/a>.<\/em> Background from NASA<\/a>; analysis from the Planetary Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VERITAS is one of two missions to Venus announced by NASA last week. Expected to launch between 2028 and 2030, VERITAS will produce an improved map of the Venusian surface with its two instruments: synthetic… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[1406,12,788,1516],"class_list":["post-1791231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-astronomy","category-geology","tag-jpl","tag-nasa","tag-venus","tag-veritas","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5575,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2013\/05\/a-topographic-map-of-titan\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791231,"position":0},"title":"A Topographic Map of Titan","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 May 2013","format":"link","excerpt":"The Cassini team has released a global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan. 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