A New Strategy for the Exploration of Venus
The VEXAG Exploration Strategy Study Analysis Workgroup

TL;DR
This paper presents a comprehensive, community-driven exploration strategy for Venus, emphasizing scientific, technological, and programmatic advances to address key questions and establish sustained exploration efforts in the coming decades.
Contribution
It introduces a new, detailed Venus exploration strategy aligned with upcoming missions and broad scientific goals, fostering international collaboration and cross-disciplinary research.
Findings
Assessment of current Venus exploration status
Proposed actions for sustained Venus exploration
Integration of upcoming missions into a strategic framework
Abstract
The 2023-2032 Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey Origins, Worlds, and Life recommended that "NASA develop scientific exploration strategies, as it has for Mars, in areas of broad scientific importance, e.g., Venus... that have an increasing number of U.S. missions and international collaboration opportunities" (OWL, p.22-10). In NASA's initial responses to that Decadal Survey, the agency asserted that "...specific scientific exploration strategies should be community generated by bodies such as the Analysis Groups," thus placing the onus on the planetary community to generate and support these exploration strategies. In late 2022, the Venus Exploration Analysis Group began a project to develop a new exploration strategy for Venus, reflecting the 2021 selections of the VERITAS, DAVINCI, and EnVision missions and the sweeping comparative planetology recommendations relevant…
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TopicsPlanetary Science and Exploration
