NASA is finally going back to Venus, for the first time in more than three decades. And a second time too.

On Wednesday, Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator, announced the agency’s latest choices for robotic planetary missions, both expected to head to Venus in the late 2020s: DAVINCI+ and VERITAS.

"These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface,” Nelson said during his "State of NASA” address to the space agency’s workforce.