China plans to launch the Venus Volcano Imaging and Climate Explorer (VOICE) mission to study the atmosphere and geology of Venus. According to Space. com, the mission is scheduled to launch in 2026 and arrive at Venus in 2027.

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The launched vehicle will operate in a circular polar orbit at an altitude of 350 kilometers, which will allow it to study the geological evolution of Venus, the thermal and chemical processes in its atmosphere, as well as the interaction between the surface and the atmosphere.. In addition, one of the goals of the apparatus will be to study the potentially habitable environment in the Venusian clouds..

Science instruments will include an S-band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar that can look through Venus's clouds and map the surface, and a multispectral imager that can observe Venus in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared ranges..

It is noted that VOICE is still a candidate mission, it is considered separately from China's main space program at the moment to explore the moon.. The possibility of launching a vehicle to Venus is considered as one of 13 candidate missions under the third strategic priority program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

VOICE competes with three other missions in the planetary and earth sciences category: E-type Asteroid Sample Return to collect samples from the 1989 ML asteroid and bring them back to Earth, climate and atmospheric studies in low Earth orbit, Satellite mission to observe surface ocean currents.

Earlier, scientists from Carleton University said that Venus could turn into hell, as it is at the moment, not close to the Sun, but volcanic activity.. It caused the greenhouse effect, which, according to scientists, almost destroyed the Earth..