The joint mission of the Russian Federation and the United States to Venus may start in the 2025-2028 biennium. – TASS

MOSCOW, April 22. / TASS /. The joint mission of the Russian Federation and the United States for the integrated study of the atmosphere and surface of Venus can be sent to the second planet from the Sun in the 2025-2028 years, said TASS director of the Space Research Institute (IKI) RAS Leo Green.

“We are American colleagues from NASA a few years ago began to discuss the possibility of a joint plan of the expedition to Venus. There is a working group. We expect that our mission will be such a long-lived station on the planet with the landing on Venus, study its atmosphere, the study of the dynamics of the wind in her study of atmospheric composition , the study of the surface If this mission is realized or domestic, or both together, then it will be outside of the current decade 2016-2025, that is, somewhere between 2025 and 2028 year. “- said Green

Format the American side participation is being discussed. This can be a development and supply of additional instruments to study the planet’s atmosphere, and the study of the interaction of Venus with the solar plasma flows from its orbit.

“We plan to explore and the atmosphere and the surface, because it will have landing . station American colleagues greater focus on the atmosphere, but we are on the lower levels, if we sit down – they are. on the middle layers, “- said the director of the Space Research Institute

According to Green, the project budget has not yet been discussed.. At the moment, the project participants are busy formulating scientific problems and the choice of means for their solution.

Before the start of the space age, it was assumed that Venus has a lot in common with our planet. However, the second planet studies have shown that the pressure therein to 100 times higher than on the earth, and the temperature is about 700 degrees Celsius. In addition, as noted by the agency, on Venus there is a strong greenhouse effect, and in its atmosphere contains clouds of sulfuric acid. “The man is unlikely to ever fly so far, unfortunately,” -. Summed Green

In October of last year in the Space Research Institute reported that a joint Russian-American project “Venera- D” ( “Venus of long-lived” ) entered into a draft Federal space program only as a conceptual study of a plan to launch after 2025

The project involves the creation of two units:. orbital and landing. A working group of representatives of scientific organizations of the USA and Russia went back to work on the definition of scientific problems of studying Venus’ in autumn 2015. The group was established in late 2013, for a while it was suspended.