At first, as always, in a course pilotless devices have been started up.
Results have appeared discouraging. Dense, reminding ocean silt, overcast has allowed to see nothing. Hundreds
kilometres of a usual and infra-red film showed same: a white homogeneous veil impenetrable - it is visible, very thick - a fog
layer. Has not justified hopes and radio optics. In atmosphere of Venus radio beams either were completely absorbed, or
reflected from its uppermost layers. Screens of locators remained black or shone equal, nothing meaning light. From
telemechanical and cybernetic platform soles-laboratories which so have excellent proved to be at preliminary researches of
the Moon and Mars, any news has not arrived. They completely and for ever have got lost somewhere at the bottom of this
dense ocean rozovato-sulphur of cloudy weight.
Then on storm of Venus daredevils have moved. Three expeditions equipped with the most advanced technics on that time,
for the best to the world the interplanetary ships one for another have dived into atmosphere of a mysterious planet. The first
ship has burnt down, without having had time to submit about itself any messages (observers have fixed dim flash on that
place where has plunged planetolet). The second expedition has informed that comes in the land and - in twenty minutes -
that their ship bears atmospheric currents of improbable force. Then she has become silent for ever. The third expedition
managed to sit down safely on a planet surface. On any whims whimsical venerianskoj atmospheres it has appeared possible
to support with landed communication within the whole days. The chief of expedition informed on sandy storms, about the
tornadoes breaking from a place the whole rocks, about the crimson darkness shrouding all around. Then this expedition has
become silent also, and in some days someone has quickly spoken in a microphone:" Fever, fever, fever... "On it
communication has broken.
The  destruction of three expeditions to such short term is too! It became obvious that to storm Venus it is possible only after
new, thorough training. Laborious, all-round and deep investigation was necessary. The international congress
kosmogatorov has developed the plan of studying of Venus, calculated on fifteen years. For research works the mankind
has set all richest arsenal of a science and technics. The artificial companions-observatories equipped in hundreds of
automatic devices have been constructed some. Self-propelled prizes-scouts, infra-red and electronic optics,
ionoskopicheskie devices and many other things were applied. The received information was indefatigably processed by the
largest elektronno-calculating machines of the world. The stratosphere of Venus has been studied with the thoroughness
amazing scientists. Have established, at last, with necessary accuracy the period of rotation of Venus round an axis. Have
sketched a card of mountain chains of Venus. Have measured its magnetic fields.