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(music throughout) Venus ... a lost frontier…

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Humanity hasn’t visited the atmosphere of Earth’s sister planet in over 40 years.

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DAVINCI is ready to take us back to Venus. 

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Its massive atmosphere holds the clues to how our neighboring planet went from an ocean world 

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to the runaway greenhouse that it is today.

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DAVINCI carries a descent probe designed to study Venus' atmosphere from within and

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from top to bottom, as well as a descent camera 

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that will capture images of the enigmatic mountains of Alpha Regio. 

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In this massive atmosphere is a chemical laboratory just waiting to be discovered...

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The spherical probe protects a suite of state-of-the-art instruments from the extreme temperatures, high pressures, and acidic clouds.

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The probe will sniff the atmosphere throughout its descent, and the analytical instruments will 

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work together to definitively measure the composition of Venus’ atmosphere.

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The camera peers down through a small viewing port,

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and once the probe passes below the cloud deck, it will start to collect a series of three-dimensional views

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that will also help us understand whether the rocks of Alpha Regio 

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reveal a story of an ancient continent shaped by water.  

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The DAVINCI probe will take the first ever close-up images

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 of rugged mountains on Venus that may preserve an earlier time.

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These discoveries will be woven together to help the science community

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answer big questions about Venus’ past oceans,

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the possibility of ongoing volcanic activity, 

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and why Venus is so different from Earth…

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This incredible scientific data will be sent back to Earth by communication with the DAVINCI relay spacecraft above.  



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And the science community will interpret these results for years to come,

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to understand better how habitability evolved on Venus, 

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how climate change may play out on our home planet,

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and how best to search for habitable planets among the billions of exoplanets throughout the Universe.