space environment № 216 26.12.2018 (2018)

The two stages of the ExoMars mission are told by Alexey Shakun, an employee of the Department of Physics of Planets and Small Bodies of the Solar System of the ICI RAS, and Igor Mitrofanov, head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology of the ICI RAS.

The lunar station of Israel.

One line:

- Vostochny Cosmodrome, preparation for the launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with remote sensing devices "Canopus-V";

- The disappearance of Saturn's rings after 300 million years;

- The Insight station has installed a seismometer on Mars.

Roscosmos IT Technology Development Strategy, scientific conference at NPO Energomash, comments by Igor Arbuzov.

Astrophoto of the year: "Man and Space", autumn landscape in the Alps, a gas and dust cloud in the Southern Corona, two comets and Pleiades, a thin crescent of Venus, aurora borealis on the seashore, the galaxy "Fireworks" and a scattered star cluster, the Moon and the solar corona during an eclipse, concentric circles around the Polar Star, the ISS on against the background of sunny dark spots.