space environment №320 10.03.2021 (2021)

Russia and China have signed a memorandum on the creation of a lunar station.

The finalists of the selection for the "Challenge" project have been determined.

Key tests of the ExoMars-2022 project.

Chronograph: March 9 is Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin's birthday.

Smolensk region, Gagarin city: the 48th socio-scientific "Gagarin Readings".

Interview: Sergey Krikalev, Anatoly Ivanishin, Tamara Filatova (Yuri Gagarin's niece).

One line:

- Dmitry Rogozin's meeting with the Egyptian Ambassador to Russia and Khab Nasr;

- 25 thousand supermassive black holes on the map of the northern sky;

- The asteroid Apophis flew at the closest distance from Earth in 8 years;

- New photos of the surface of Mars from the Tianwen-1 probe.

Vesta is the brightest asteroid in 2021.

Astrophoto of the week: Mars in Taurus, the Veil nebula or the Fishing Net, stars above the Sicilian volcano Etna.