Venus Volcano Imaging and Climate Explorer (VOICE) is a proposed orbiter mission to Venus by China National Space Administration. According to the proposal, VOICE will study "Venusian volcanic and thermal evolution history, water and plate tectonics, internal structure and dynamics, climate evolution, possible habitable environment and life information in the clouds". The mission is part of the Tianwen program, and is expected to be launched in 2026, and arrive at Venus at 2027.[1][2]
VOICE will have three instruments: Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR), Microwave Radiometric Sounder (MWRS) and Ultraviolet-Visible-Near Infrared Multi-Spectral Imager (UVN-MSI).[1]
The mission is not yet selected, it competes with 12 other missions under the Strategic Priority Program on Space Science III (SPP-III) for 2025-2030.[3][4]
