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India's First Mission to Venus
October 3 , 2024
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- The Union Cabinet recently approved India’s first mission to Venus that ISRO aims to launch in March 2028.
- This will be the country’s second interplanetary mission after the Mars Orbiter Mission launched in 2013.
- It aims to examine the surface and sub-surface of Venus, its atmosphere, its ionosphere, and its interaction with the Sun.
- Venus is often called Earth’s twin because it is similar in mass, density, and size.
- Therefore, studying Venus may offer scientists clues about the evolution of Earth.
- Notably, Venus is thought to have had water at some point in its history but has now become a dry and dusty planet.
- It has an extremely high surface temperature of around 462 degrees Celsius, even hotter than Mercury.
- The atmospheric pressure on Venus is much higher than on Earth.
- 96.5% of the atmosphere of Venus is made up of carbon dioxide and there are sulphuric acid clouds on the planet.
- Venus rotates very slowly on its axis as compared to Earth and one rotation of Venus lasts around 243 Earth days.
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