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Detailed explanation-1: -The European Space Agency (ESA) is launching the EnVision spacecraft in 2031 or later to study Venus and its past. EnVision will tell us the history Venus experienced that drove it from being habitable to hellish. NASA is collaborating with ESA to enhance the scientific output from their missions.

Detailed explanation-2: -The mission is expected to study Venus’s geological and volcanic activity, emissions on the ground, wind speed, cloud cover, and other planetary characteristics from an elliptical orbit. ISRO received an allocation of ₹13, 700 crore in the 2022-2023 budget, marginally higher than the year before.

Detailed explanation-3: -In a recently published paper, NASA scientists and engineers give new details about the agency’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission, which will descend through the layered Venus atmosphere to the surface of the planet in mid-2031.

Detailed explanation-4: -EnVision is an orbital mission to Venus being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) that is planned to perform high-resolution radar mapping and atmospheric studies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shukrayaan is the Indian space mission to Venus by ISRO. Read here to know more about the mission. The Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced that it is expecting to launch the Venus mission Shukrayaan by December 2024.