Status of Venus Missions and A Proposal for a Possible Venus Mission by the Turkish Space Agency

New data is definitely needed for a more complete and consistent picture of our so called “sister planet” which has many parameters similar to Earth.But some of these parameters are very different from Earth and from any other planets in the Solar System.The knowledge of the status and history of the development of existing runaway greenhouse effect on Venus will shed important light on global warming and climate change effects on our planet.International cooperation, individual national or private Venus missions may provide significant information on the present and the past situations. New technological breakthroughs and advances in the existing techniques will be useful for achieving the scientific goals for terraforming and colonizing as proposed by NASA, RosCosmos, etc. As the most recent of national agencies, The Turkish Space Agency (TUA) was established on 13 December 2018. The agency is expected to develop a schedule on the one hand satisfying national aspirations and on the other hand achieving international recognition.A mission to Venus as an orbital with some remote sensing and radiation detection capabilities would fit both aims. It would fulfill also the call made by the Indian Space Agency for international cooperation in their upcoming Venus mission. In this respect, it is our goal to participate in the international research for the estimation of the any possibilities of imaging the surface of Venus by a nanoprobe as a first flagship project of TUA to Venus. This project would be a very meaningful as a Flag Project on the behalf of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Turkish Republic, in 2023.