DAVINCI+

ToughSF-twitter points us to "Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gasses, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus". We're in acronym hell, here...

The tech report URL hints that the powerpoint presentation is from May 2020, so - I missed it. They were looking at flyby November 2026 and September 2027, so to insert April 2028. Like Magellan. The actual work would be done that November, over Alpha Regio.

The people posing for the photo at the end are wearing woke hijab. Maybe as a (probable) late-spring 2020 fling. Although I fear they'd be wearing the same if they did it today.

Also they have Earth at the inner edge of the Solar habitable-zone. My readers may or may not buy that; it is Conveniently Truthy for the warming-alarmists. Personally I do buy that, as a member of the Paul Birch Society. Venus, of course, is no longer in habitable scope.

If she ever was. Part of the mission was to ask if this planet ever had oceans. They point out that the James Webb has a bias to Venus-zone planets so, learning more about Venus right here will help figure out the new exoplanets coming online.

I like that it's not just krypton and other inertia, but also phosphorus chemistry. Wonder if that's piggybacking off the phosphine hype we'd had. Either way, if we're going to have floaty farms over that planet, they'll need their own phosphorus.