Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Scheduled to launch in the early 2030s, NASA's DAVINCI mission will explore Venus with both a spacecraft and a descent probe. DAVINCI’s probe will be the first in the 21st century to brave Venus’ atmosphere as it descends from above the planet’s clouds down to its surface. The DAVINCI spacecraft will study Venus’ clouds and highlands during two flybys. It also will release a spherical probe, about 3 feet wide, that will plunge through the planet’s thick atmosphere and corrosive clouds, taking measurements and capturing high-resolution images of the Venusian surface as it descends below the clouds.
Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Producer, Editor
James Garvin (NASA, Chief Scientist Goddard): Scientist,
Walt Feimer (eMITS): Animator
Jenny McElligott: Animator
Jonathan North (eMITS): Animator
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (eMITS): Animator
Michael Lentz (eMITS): Animator
Krystofer Kim (eMITS): Animator
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14735. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14735. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/.
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASAGoddard
Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
· Instagram: instagram.com/nasagoddard
· X: twitter.com/NASAGoddard
· Facebook: facebook.com/NASAGoddard
· Flickr: flickr.com/photos/gsfc
Scheduled to launch in the early 2030s, NASA's DAVINCI mission will explore Venus with both a spacecraft and a descent probe. DAVINCI’s probe will be the first in the 21st century to brave Venus’ atmosphere as it descends from above the planet’s clouds down to its surface. The DAVINCI spacecraft will study Venus’ clouds and highlands during two flybys. It also will release a spherical probe, about 3 feet wide, that will plunge through the planet’s thick atmosphere and corrosive clouds, taking measurements and capturing high-resolution images of the Venusian surface as it descends below the clouds.
Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Producer, Editor
James Garvin (NASA, Chief Scientist Goddard): Scientist,
Walt Feimer (eMITS): Animator
Jenny McElligott: Animator
Jonathan North (eMITS): Animator
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (eMITS): Animator
Michael Lentz (eMITS): Animator
Krystofer Kim (eMITS): Animator
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14735. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14735. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/.
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASAGoddard
Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
· Instagram: instagram.com/nasagoddard
· X: twitter.com/NASAGoddard
· Facebook: facebook.com/NASAGoddard
· Flickr: flickr.com/photos/gsfc
