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What is Veritas' mission? What is its profile?

What's great about these two missions is that we were in competition with each other.

I say we because I'm on DaVinci, which is the other mission. But we were in competition

fiercely because everybody wanted to have the next mission. And yet now that they've

selected both missions, we can work together and it's really a case of the whole being

much greater than the sum of the parts because these missions are complementary. In the

case of Veritas, it's an orbiter. The centerpiece of Veritas is a radar instrument that's much

more sophisticated than the Magellan radar instrument that we had in the 1990s. We'll

get much more detailed maps of the surface geology and geography. We'll be able to see

in great detail and we'll even be able to look for motion. So as this spacecraft orbits

and then it goes back over some of the previous places on the planet that it's previously

mapped, this radar instrument is so finely tuned and calibrated that they can even see

if there's been a little bit of differential ground motion in between the different orbits

which will help us understand not just what it looks like, but what level of activity

there may be there now on Venus. The whole mission for the name Veritas stands for Venus

Missivity, E-Messivity, Radio Science, Insar, Topography and Spectroscopy. Does that mean

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