DAVINCI and the automatic VERITAS station were chosen by NASA to implement the Discovery program. A project to create an orbital repeater probe and a descent atmospheric probe. All this should be prepared and launched, sent to Venus in June 2029.
It will take six months for the CRIS orbiter to make its close flyby near Venus after launch. It will conduct remote sensing and spectroscopy of the lower layers and clouds of Venus. Already in November 2030, the second flight will be implemented according to the plan, during which much attention will be paid to observations of the mountainous regions of Venus. According to the results of 7 months, the orbiting probe will visit Venus for the third time and on June 21, 2031, the descent probe should drop into the atmosphere of the planet.
The mountainous Alpha Region in the southern hemisphere of Venus, near its equator, was chosen as the area of work of interest to scientists. It represents a unique type of geological objects characteristic of Venus — tesserae. The major axis of the landing ellipse for the descent probe is about 310 km, and it is located near the top of the ridge, with a height of about 900 m.