In 2022, an independent review found institutional problems at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, affecting missions like VERITAS. NASA's 2024 budget request only allocated $1.5 million for the Venus exploration, prompting protests and backlash from the scientific community.
VERITAS hopes to produce high-resolution radar maps of the surface of Venus for the first time. Scientists are curious to know what current geological processes happening on the planet and will also be looking for evidence that there is (or was) water on the planet.
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