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VERITAS Mission Uses Iceland as Venus Stand-in
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To lay the groundwork for NASA's VERITAS mission (Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography, And Spectroscopy), members of the mission's international science team traveled in August 2023 to Iceland, using the island as a stand-in, or analog, for Venus. Using several techniques, the team studied a variety of rocky terrain, including this lava field featuring new rock from a recent flow, to better understand what the VERITAS mission will "see" when it studies Venus' surface.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineVERITAS Mission Uses Iceland as Venus Stand-in. NASA/JPL, 2023-09-19. Public domain. ID: PIA25838.
