Morningstar Missions to Venus

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Morningstar Missions is searching the clouds of Venus for signs of life. Based at MIT in partnership with Rocket Lab, the mission's Habitability Probe will detect complex organic molecules and characterize the unknown UV absorber — a chemistry puzzle that has stood for nearly a century.

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Feature Episode

13 min
Preview Episode
Posted Nov 113 min

The Beautiful Deceiver

Venus is the Morning Star and the Evening Star — the brightest object in our sky after the Sun and Moon. We open with the early romance of tropical jungles, then the hellish reality the 1960s revealed. How did Earth's twin become so different?

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13 min
Preview Episode
Posted Nov 113 min

The Beautiful Deceiver

11 min
Preview Episode
Posted Nov 811 min

Paradise Lost

13 min
Preview Episode
Posted Nov 1513 min

The Goldilocks Zone in the Sky

Hell Planet

13 min
Preview Episode
Posted Nov 113 min

The Beautiful Deceiver

11 min
Preview Episode
Posted Nov 811 min

Paradise Lost

13 min
Preview Episode
Posted Nov 1513 min

The Goldilocks Zone in the Sky

Chemical Whispers

14 min
Preview Episode
Posted Dec 614 min

The Phosphine Bombshell

15 min
Preview Episode
Posted Dec 1315 min

Whispers from the Archive

11 min
Preview Episode
Posted Dec 2011 min

The Ammonia Connection and Mode 3

Life in Acid

13 min
Preview Episode
Posted Jan 1013 min

Molecules That Shouldn't Survive

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The Droplet Life Cycle

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The Metabolism Question

The Mission

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Following the Clues

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Morning Star Rising

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The Search Ahead

The Implications

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Two Geneses or One?

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The Exoplanet Connection

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