Venus remains Earth’s enigmatic “sister,” potentially hiding secrets about the limits of habitability, loss of oceans, and extreme climate change. It has been decades since humanity last visited Venus’s massive atmosphere and reached its inhospitable surface and NASA recently selected two new missions to explore our planetary neighbor.

James B. Garvin, chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Principal Investigator of the upcoming DAVINCI mission (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) to Venus, will share how the foreboding Venus of today is poised to share its secrets in the upcoming decades as a new window on our solar system and beyond.

The Exploring Space Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of Aerojet Rocketdyne and United Launch Alliance.