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Can you
just tell us a bit about the mission?

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What are we going to be looking at at Venus?

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So we're going back to Venus
into the atmosphere.

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We're taking the plunge for the first time
in what will have been 50 years.

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What kind of information is DAVINCI
going to be collecting

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as it descends down through the toxic
atmosphere of Venus to the surface?

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There may be a relic, a ghostlike
fingerprint of ancient continents

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on Venus, when Venus had oceans
perhaps as extensive as Earth’s.

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And so DAVINCI's job in descending over
Alpha is to make chemical measurements,

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to talk about the history of water,
but also to look at what the rocks

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in this beautiful
region are like under the clouds.

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It's hard to see the rocks

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through the lens of a big, thick cloud deck.
DAVINCI goes under the clouds

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all the way down to the surface,
coming in over Alpha Regio,

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those mountains in Alpha Regio extend 10,000 feet high.

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So we want to go there, bring our eyes
and cameras and spectrometers

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to see what this place is telling us
about the history of

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Venus.