NASA targets Venus with plans to send its first probes there in more than 30 years

To investigate how Venus evolved, NASA said it is funding two missions. One, dubbed DAVINCI Plus, would send a probe plunging through the planet’s dense atmosphere to understand why it is, as NASA said, “a runaway hothouse compared to the Earth’s.” The mission’s name is an acronym for Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry and Imaging Plus.