MOSCOW, January 12 A helicopter-type drone for flights in the atmosphere of Venus and work on its surface is being developed at the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), the university press service reported.
“”Graduate student of the Institute No. 6 “Aerospace” MAI Alexey Sheremet is designing an unmanned aerial vehicle to study Venus. The UAV will be able to move over the surface of the planet and land on it,” the message says.
As Sheremet explained, quoted by the press service, the main feature of the device will be a rotor system like a helicopter. It will allow scientific research both in flight mode and on the surface of Venus, and will also provide maneuverability and the ability to avoid obstacles.
It is specified that the device will be able to take high-quality images of the planet’s surface and draw up relief maps for further analysis of geological features. In addition, the developer wants to equip the device with sensors to measure temperature, pressure and other atmospheric parameters in order to study the gas composition and climatic conditions of the planet.
According to Sheremet, studying Venus will help better understand and model processes associated with Earth's climate change, the greenhouse effect and the evolution of planetary atmospheres. The developer admitted that he was inspired to design such a device by the Ingenuity helicopter, developed by NASA and sent to Mars along with the Perseverance rover.
So far, the Russian Venus program is limited to the Venera-D station, which will go to Earth’s neighbor planet after 2030 and, at a new technological level, will continue the research conducted by Soviet and American stations from the 1960s to the 1990s. Russian scientists also announced their desire to send two more missions after Venera-D and, within the framework of the last one, to try to deliver soil from there to Earth for the first time in history.
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