Venus. An indomitable planet. Shubin Pavel Sergeevich

The light of Venus was the good old acquaintance of the whole human civilization. Our ancestor, the first picked up a stone, saw her in the sky, under her light the builders of the pyramids returned after a difficult day. The history of the study of Venus has many hundreds of years by man, but only in the last few decades could scientists finally reveal most of the mysteries of the planet-neighbor.

The book describes in detail all the stages of research - from constructing hypothetical climate models to surface mapping and planting on Venus. By the number of different materials, documents and photographs regarding automatic interplanetary stations, this book has no analogues, but is written in a simple and understandable language, which makes it available for the most mass reader.