{"id":113088,"date":"2020-09-16T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/venus-is-a-russian-planet-russian-space-agency-director-says"},"modified":"2020-09-16T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:22:33","slug":"venus-is-a-russian-planet-russian-space-agency-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/venus-is-a-russian-planet-russian-space-agency-director-says","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Venus is a Russian planet,\u2019 Russian space agency director says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/venus-is-a-russian-planet-russian-space-agency-director-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Roscosmos noted that the first missions to explore Venus were carried out by the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe enormous gap between the Soviet Union and its competitors in the investigation of Venus contributed to the fact that the United States called Venus a Soviet planet,\u201d Roscosmos said.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians claim to have extensive material that suggests that some objects on the Venusian surface have changed places or could be alive, although these are hypotheses that have yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Russia has announced an intention to independently explore Venus a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2020\/09\/14\/life-on-venus-astronomers-see-hints-in-clouds-above-earth-s-twin-planet\">scientists said there was a gas that could be present in the planet\u2019s clouds due to single-cell microbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Russia\u2019s space corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, told reporters that they would initiate a national project as \u201cwe believe that Venus is a Russian planet,\u201d according to the TASS news agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement, Roscosmos noted that the first missions to explore Venus were carried out by the Soviet Union. \u201cThe enormous gap between the Soviet Union and its competitors in the investigation of Venus contributed to the fact that the United States called Venus a Soviet planet,\u201d Roscosmos said. The Russians claim to have extensive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}