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Mhm. Okay here we copy. We're proceeding into the I. U. S. B. I lock check out Nasa is heading out into deep space once again with an initial price tag of $500 million. Each. Two new programs, Davinci and veritas will launch planetary probes designed to visit venus within a decade. We hope these missions will further our understanding of how earth evolved and why it's currently habitable when others in our solar system are not. By gathering new data about venus. Scientists also expect to learn about Earth and the evolution of life. Uh huh. In many respects the investigations of mars and venus are looking for the same thing, evidence of water present today or perhaps long long ago. We want to understand if venus, which we think of as Earth's evil twin was more like her identical twin in the distant past. That means vast surface oceans that could have harbored life while life on earth was rising and evolving. It's possible that venus was also a place that those processes could happen. Understanding venus's story can aid the search for life outside our solar system as astronomers discover new planets around other stars. But those ancient oceans are long since gone and the teams of veritas and Davinci want to know why