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NASA’s DAVINCI Probe Can Stand the Heat

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NASA’s DAVINCI Probe Can Stand the Heat

NASA · Official source · Oct 2, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC

The engineering development unit for NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) probe is photographed prior to a major thermal evaluation. The DAVINCI team put the yoga ball-sized vessel into a ceramic-lined chamber with heat-scorched walls and ratcheted up the temperature to 869 F, or 465 C, over the…