23 min listen
Sue Smrekar on the VERITAS Mission to Venus
FromGeology Bites
ratings:
Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Dec 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The best maps we have of Venus were made by Magellan, a space probe that flew in the 1990s. In the summer of 2021, NASA approved a new mapping mission that will produce radically improved maps of the topography, radar reflectivity, and gravity field, and the first ever global map of surface rock type. Sue Smrekar, the mission Principal Investigator, explains why this will revolutionize our understanding of Venus and perhaps also throw light on the early history of Earth when processes analogous to those happening on Venus today may have occurred.
Sue Smrekar is a geophysicist who has played key scientific and managerial roles in multiple planetary exploration missions, include Magellan and the InSight robot lander on Mars.
Sue Smrekar is a geophysicist who has played key scientific and managerial roles in multiple planetary exploration missions, include Magellan and the InSight robot lander on Mars.
Released:
Dec 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (87)
Clare Warren on Divining the History of a Rock by Geology Bites