Approximate launch date project venera-D

"In this project, we are currently conducting research and development. The launch will be in 2020-2025, "- said the head of the Federal Space Agency.

Under the "Venera-D" will send two to Venus orbiter and a lander. After the failure of the mission "Phobos-Grunt" in the fall of 2011, this project, like many others ("Mars-Nat", "Mercury-P", "Venera-D", "Spectrum-RGM" and "Spectrum-UFM") is under threat. Even report the closure of projects, but that information was later refuted.

Scientists have built-up a geological map of Venus

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).

The supernova remnant Simeis 147

This structure, also referred to in catalogs as Sh2-240, covers an area of ​​nearly 3 degrees on the sky (the equivalent of 6 full moons). The mentioned field corresponds to an actual diameter of about 150 light-years, since the debris cloud is at an estimated distance of 3000 years-light. The bright star that dominates the right side of the image is El Nath (Beta Tauri), located toward the boundary between the constellations of Bull (Taurus in Latin) and the Charioteer (Auriga in Latin), on a point of land almost exactly sky opposite to the galactic center.