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    Skywatchers Delight! Venus Will Dazzle In The Night Sky Next Weekend! NASA’s Upcoming DAVINCI Mission Will Take The Plunge into Venus’s Hellish Atmosphere Live Shots

    May 30th, 2023
    (updated June 2nd, 2023)

    Quick link to EDITED BROLL for the live shotsQuick link to pre-recorded interview with DR. JIM GARVIN / DAVINCI Principal InvestigatorAdditional still images of Venus from NASA's Magellan and Mariner missions. Credit: NASA/JPLLearn more about VENUS here!!Quick link to pre-recorded interview with MATT GARRISONQuick link to pre-recorded interview with DR LINDSAY HAYS || NASA’s Upcoming DAVINCI Mission Will Take The Plunge into Venus’s Hellish AtmosphereShine bright like a diamond! You may have noticed a bright looking “star” in the night sky just after dusk recently. Well, it’s not a “star”, but rather Venus, Earth’s sister planet. Next weekend, on June 4, Venus will be at its highest point in the sky, leading to a spectacular evening of viewing. Today Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system. It’s a hellish world with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but billions of years ago it may have looked similar to Earth with liquid water oceans and perhaps a steamy atmosphere. How Venus turned into this toxic world remains a mystery. NASA’s upcoming mission to the planet, DAVINCI, will help find answers. DAVINCI will plunge through Venus’s thick, toxic atmosphere collecting unprecedented detail and information about the planet as it parachutes through the thick clouds and lands in an ancient region. Who knows what fabulous mysteries of our sister planet remain on the surface of Venus!Click here for more information about Venus and DAVINCI: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/ and https://ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov/davinci/* Live interviews are available Friday, June. 2 from 6:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. EST* Click here to request an interview: https://forms.gle/jBJv4fDZKDqwZ5ax8 * Requests sent via the above form will have scheduling priority. Please do not email requests.Suggested Anchor Intro:This weekend is a great time to go outside and enjoy the views of our nearest planetary neighbor. Venus will be at its highest point in the night sky, giving us dazzling views of our sister planet. It’s a fascinating world - similar in size and terrain to Earth - but also vastly different. The future of Venus exploration is nearly upon us with NASA’s upcoming DAVINCI mission. Here to tell us more about this exciting new era is NASA expert…. Suggested Questions:This weekend is a great time to go outside and catch Venus sparkling in the evening sky. How can we spot our planetary neighbor?Venus is often called “Earth’s twin” given its similar size and rocky landscapes, but it is a very different world than our own. Can you tell us more about this mysterious world?What are NASA’s plans to explore Venus in the coming years?What about the DAVINCI mission are you most excited about?Getting to any planet is difficult, but Venus is especially hard given its extreme temperatures and pressure. How do you build something that can survive in a place like this?Where can we go to learn more about Venus and this exciting mission, and all of NASA’s plans for returning to Venus? Questions for longer interviewsHow does Venus help us understand planets orbiting other stars?Why must we “take the plunge” to measure how Venus' atmosphere and climate operate?Venus is a cautionary tale of what can happen when you have runaway greenhouse gasses that feed the cycle of planetary warming. How can these new missions help us better understand Earth?Recent studies indicate that Venus may still have active volcanoes! What does this tell you about Venus?Do you have feedback for the Live Shot Program or want to be removed from our contact list? We would love to hear from you HERE! ||

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    Quickshot: Skywatchers Delight! July 12-13 Venus and Mars Will Appear Extra Close To Each Other In Night Sky

    July 9th, 2021
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Quick link to associated B-ROLLQuick link to soundbites with Giada Arney / DAVINCI Deputy Principal InvestigatorQuick link to soundbites with Jim Garvin / DAVINCI Principal Investigator || Skywatchers are in for a treat next week! During the month of July, Earth’s closest neighbors - Venus and Mars - have been getting ever-closer together in the night sky. On the night of July 12th, into the early hours of the 13th, Venus and Mars will be at their closest. It’s called a planetary conjunction, and they’ll be easily visible in the same field of view despite being very far away from each other. Both Venus and Mars are targets for the next generation of space exploration, with new missions to study VENUS having recently been announced by NASA.DAVINCI Principal Investigator, Jim Garvin, and Deputy Principal Investigator Giada Arney provide a look into this astronomical event and the upcoming missions to study one of our nearest planetary neighbors.Suggested Questions:What does it mean when there’s a conjunction in the night sky?How can our viewers spot Venus and Mars?Venus has been quite a topic lately, can you tell us about the new missions NASA is sending to study it?Why do scientists want to study Venus?Where can our viewers go to learn more?Questions? Contact christina.b.mitchell@nasa.govParticipating Scientists:Jim Garvin / DAVINCI Principal InvestigatorGiada Arney / DAVINCI Deputy Principal Investigator** Introducing Quick Shots! **An innovative and easy way to download and use broadcast-ready NASA stories, b-roll, and canned interviews by media, social media influencers, and educators across the world. Think news gathering service, but for NASA stories. Everyone is busy these days so we want to make it easy for interesting, visually-driven NASA material to be downloadable and primed for use. Sometimes you just want to run a short voiceover or voiceover with a soundbite but don’t have time to search through mountains of material. NASA Quick Shots has you covered.Contact michelle.z.handleman@nasa.gov and christina.b.mitchell@nasa.gov for more information. ||

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    NASA’s New Views of Venus’ Surface From Space

    Feb. 9th, 2022
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum – the type of light that the human eye can see – and extending into the near-infrared.The images, combined into a video, reveal a faint glow from the surface that shows distinctive features like continental regions, plains, and plateaus. A luminescent halo of oxygen in the atmosphere can also be seen surrounding the planet.Link to NASA.gov feature.Link to associated research paper. ||

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