The mission is expected to launch in 2026.
China plans to launch Venus Volcano Imaging and Climate mission Explorer (VOICE), which will study the atmosphere and geology of Venus. According to Space.com, it is planned that the mission will be launched in 2026 and will arrive at Venus in 2027.
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The launched device will operate in a circular polar orbit at an altitude of 350 kilometers, which will allow it to study the geological evolution of Venus, the thermal and chemical processes in its atmosphere, as well as the interaction between the surface and the atmosphere. In addition, one of the goals of the device will be to study the potentially habitable environment in the Venusian clouds.
Science instruments will include an S-band synthetic aperture polarimetric radar that will be able to peer through Venus' clouds and map the surface, and a multispectral imager that will be able to observe Venus in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared.
It is noted that VOICE is still a candidate mission, it is being considered separately from China's current main space program for lunar exploration. The possibility of launching a probe to Venus is considered as one of 13 candidate missions under the third strategic priority program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
VOICE competes with three other missions in the planetary science and Earth science category: E-type Asteroid Sample Return to collect samples from the asteroid 1989 ML and deliver them to Earth, to study the climate and atmosphere in low Earth orbit, the Satellite Mission to observe the surface currents of the ocean.
Earlier, scientists from Carleton University said that turning Venus into hell, which it is at the moment, may not be a close location to the Sun, but volcanic activity. It caused a greenhouse effect, which, according to scientists, almost destroyed the Earth as well.
