Welcome to the EnVision official website ! EnVision is a proposed Venus orbiter mission that aims to understand how and why Venus, the Earth’s nearest neighbour, has evolved differently from the Earth. Like so many missions studying the Earth’s crust and interior structure from orbit, EnVision will study the geological activity of Venus in unprecedented detail, using a combination of radar, optical spectroscopy and gravity mapping.
EnVision would be a European Space Agency mission, with significant scientific participation from NASA. It is one of three mission concepts competing for an opportunity to launch in 2032. The world map you see just below is composed from a mosaic of radar images taken by the Magellan spacecraft launched May 4, 1989, at the end of the cold war. The mission ended October 13, 1994. This is a “false color” image, which means that scientists have told a computer to use different colors for different surface elevations. Blue areas show smooth surfaces, or possibly surfaces that are covered with dust. Brown areas represent rough terrain (image NASA/GSFC).
Please explore our menus & follow the links above to find more about Venus and the EnVision project !
Recent posts
- January 28, 2025: ESA and Thales Alenia Space Italy signed the contract to build the spacecraft of Envision
- Venus: Evolution Through Time – Space Science Reviews open access collection completed
- EnVision Definition Study Report (“Redbook”)
- International EnVision Venus Science workshop, 9-11 May 2023, Berlin-Adlershof
- 2023 International Envision Venus science workshop – Announcement & Call for Abstracts