1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,020
[slate]

2
00:00:05,020 --> 00:00:09,020
[slate]

3
00:00:09,020 --> 00:00:13,020


4
00:00:13,020 --> 00:00:17,020


5
00:00:17,020 --> 00:00:00,000


6
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000
[slate]

7
00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000


8
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,000
Well they can look in the night sky and there are websites

9
00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,000
that will describe the exact viewing geometrics that will allow them to see

10
00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000
this very special conjunction where our two nearest neighbor planets - our brother

11
00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000
planet Mars, named for the God of War and our sister planet Venus, the

12
00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,000
Goddess of love, will both appear. And so you’ll be able to see that in the night

13
00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000
sky after dusk and the exact details are available

14
00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000
on various NASA websites. [slate]

15
00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,000
[slate] Absolutely

16
00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000
Venus is hot now. And you know we’ve all said Mars is cool but

17
00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,000
Venus is hotter. And right now NASA has selected two

18
00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000
Venus missions to explore our sister for the first time in decades.

19
00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000
One which will global map the surface with advanced radar

20
00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000
and inferred radiation to give us that global perspective of

21
00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000
a world like our own. And the other - our Davinci mission - will bring a spacecraft

22
00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000
for the first time developed by NASA into the atmosphere with a chemistry

23
00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,000
lab and human-scale vision to see that planet

24
00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000
in a cross-section of its spectacular atmosphere where there is mysteries 

25
00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000
literally abounding. And those two missions together will be the bookends

26
00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000
to make a new Venus appear, a lost frontier coming alive.

27
00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000
[slate]

28
00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000
[slate]

29
00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000
In our solar system we have two neighborly planets. Mars where we’ve had intensive

30
00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000
efforts for the last 25 years and great progress. And Venus

31
00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000
our kind of forgotten sister. And so Venus

32
00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,000
rather surprisingly offers greater clues to possible evolutionary 

33
00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000
and pathways for big Earth-like planets like our own, both in 

34
00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000
our solar system and beyond. We should be able to see

35
00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000
with our next generation space observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope

36
00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000
like the Nancy Roman, we should be able to sense

37
00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000
the planets like Venus with big atmospheres and rocky planetary surfaces

38
00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,000
light years away. So getting to know to our own Venus next door

39
00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000
will help us make that link from our sister planet who perhaps

40
00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000
lost her habitable environment to those that are way beyond.

41
00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000
And that connection is important in this blooming era of astrophysics

42
00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000
and planetary exploration. So Venus really is special.

43
00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,000
[slate]

44
00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,000
[slate]

45
00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000
So people can go to solarsystem.nasa.gov

46
00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000
on the web and they will see details of our next voyages

47
00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000
to Venus with Davinici and Veritas, and connections to past

48
00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000
missions like the Magellan mission of the 90s and all the way back to the 70s.

49
00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,010
Venus is our new frontier and we are so excited to be going

50
00:02:57,010 --> 00:02:57,010