Moscow – If there is life on Venus, it probably wants to start learning Russian. The boss of Russia’s state space agency has called it a “Russian planet.”
The bold regional claim comes from the scientific side Research suggests life may exist The celestial body of the earth, the second planet from the sun.
Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos, known for his awareness of unconventional scientific ideas – and often for his ironic anti-Western rhetoric – said this week that Russia wants to send its own mission to Venice, in addition to the United States. In addition to the previously proposed joint venture. “Venera-D.”
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“We think Venus is a Russian planet, so we should not lag behind,” former Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin told reporters on Tuesday. He noted that the Soviet Union was “the first and only” to land a spacecraft on Venus.
“The spacecraft gathered information about the planet – it’s like hell there,” he told the Toss News Agency.
The research was published in the journal Monday Nature Astronomy Details British and American scientists discover phosphine gas in the clouds around Venus, which is considered a possible sign of life on the planet.
The atmosphere Thank you It is composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide, and is considered to be the hottest planet in our solar system.
The new study rekindled public interest in Venice, prompting the Roscosmos chief to recall the achievements of the former Soviet Union in its quest for space.
NASA’s Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to fly through Venus and measured its surface temperature in 1962. The Soviet Union launched several “Venera” spacecraft and in 1970 Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to successfully make a soft landing on the planet. It melted in seconds.
Its successor, the Venera 9, took the first and only single image of the Venetian surface, from a ground-level perspective.
“The wide gap between the Soviet Union and its opponents in the Venice exploration contributed to the fact that the United States called Venus a ‘Soviet planet,'” the space agency wrote. Website on Tuesday.
Shortly after this week’s study was published, the Breakthrough Initiatives program, backed by Russian-born billionaire Yuri Milner, announced that it was investigating the possibility of early life in the cloud of Venus, led by the Massachusetts Institute. Will do. Technology.
Last month, Rogozin declared Friday “more interesting than Mars,” suggesting that studying the planet could help scientists understand how to tackle climate change on Earth.
