NASA is considering sending one or two scientific missions to Venus by April 2021 in search of life.
According to Qadin.Net, this was reported by Reuters.
Earlier, it was reported that a colorless poisonous gas - phosphine, which can be of both industrial and biological origin, was discovered in the atmosphere of Venus.
One of the missions, DAVINCI +, consists of a device that will study the chemical composition of Venus during a 63-minute descent to the atmosphere. Planetary scientists hope that this probe will help determine how the atmosphere interacts with surface rocks and answer the question of whether there are volcanoes on Venus today.
The second Venus mission, VERITAS, will be the successor to the Magellanic probe, which explored Venus in the early 1990s. It will carry out similar mapping work using more powerful radars and scientific devices.