Akatsuki mission

The Akatsuki mission is part of a spacecraft mission by Japan’s JAXA, aimed at studying Venus. Launched in 2010, its goal is to analyze Venus’s atmosphere, cloud patterns, and weather phenomena using advanced instruments. By understanding Venus’s climate and atmospheric processes, scientists hope to learn more about planetary evolution and weather systems, which can also shed light on Earth’s climate. The mission provides valuable data on Venus's environmental conditions, helping to broaden our knowledge of our neighboring planet and planetary science as a whole.