Just days after scientists said they discovered the presence of phosphine in the clouds of Venus, the head of Russia's space agency declared "Earth's evil twin" a "Russian planet." Dmitry Rogozin, the director general of Russian space agency Roscosmos, said the second planet from the sun is a "Russian planet" as the former Soviet Union landed a probe on Venus decades ago. “Our country [the Soviet Union] was the first and only one to successfully land on Venus,” Rogozin said in an interview with The Times. “The spacecraft gathered information about the planet — it is like hell over there.”NASA CHIEF SAYS VENUS IS 'ONE STOP IN OUR SEARCH FOR LIFE'“We believe that Venus is a Russian planet," he added. The Soviet-era Venera program was designed to learn more about the planet Venus, which some researchers believe was habitable in its distant past.

Source: Fox News September 21, 2020 12:22 UTC