the lava flows appear to originate near small shield volcanoes and extend towards the northeast, also following the direction of the slope,” Mastrogiuseppe added. Venus is the second planet from ...

to apply a heat shield onto the small space capsule that's scheduled to launch next summer. Along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rocket Lab has since 2021 been planning its Venus ...

But one idea that always seems to come up in those conversations—volcanoes. It's clear that Venus has plenty of volcanoes—estimates center around about 85,000 of them in total. However ...

Teams at Ames work with private companies, like Rocket Lab, to turn NASA materials into solutions such as the heat shield tailor-made for this spacecraft destined for Venus, supporting the growth ...