U.S. and Russian
planetary scientists developed the first complete geological map of Venus and
presented it to the third Moscow Solar System Symposium on Space Research
Institute (IKI) RAS.
"The map has
helped us to find out what life in the earth, there were two periods of Venus -
tectonic and volcanic his descendant. According to our calculations, the"
morning star "is quite young - the average age of rocks on the surface is
about 500 million years," - said one of the authors cards, Mikhail Ivanov
of the Institute of Geochemistry, Vernadsky (Vernadsky).
