Posted on 11/26/2011 8:07:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv
...the planet's surface... a smoldering 470° Celsius... shows signs of recent geological activity, with hot spots resembling those beneath Hawaii... appears to be insulated by one large, solid lid... Some regions in the southern hemisphere... are emitting more heat than others... appear to be younger... with basaltic lava flows... at least nine volcanic hot spots, or mantle plumes.. between 250,000 and 2.5 million years old... Though alternative explanations for the Venusian veneer point toward cataclysmic processes, Svedhem says the data support gradual resurfacing... a thin layer of ozone on Venus' nightside... only one-thousandth the amount on Earth... the presence of Earthlike lightning in the Venusian clouds remains disputed... the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft... failed during orbit insertion... with a second attempted rendezvous planned for 2015... If Akatsuki does enter Venus orbit, it will begin imaging the Venusian clouds... At the... poles, that shroud's height shrinks to 65 kilometers... embellished by mysterious vortices... swirl around a central 2- to 3-kilometer-wide hole, a tunnel that plunges through the atmosphere. And they look like Earth's hurricanes, except that they are about the size of Europe, says Dmitry Titov of the European Space Agency and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research... the vortices appear to be the result of a global pattern of atmospheric circulation known as "superrotation." The clouds on Venus fly around the planet at speeds up to 150 meters per second, completing a round trip in just four Earth days, even though a single Venusian day lasts for 243 Earth days... While a number of plausible scenarios have been developed to describe Earth's atmospheric circulation, they all "fail completely" when applied to Venus, Svedhem says... Sometime in mid-2015, the spacecraft will fall into the toxic clouds.
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:’) It remains in the original, in any case.
Well, it's not the heat, it's the humidity....
I think I’ll pass on that.
470 degrees C is a little too tropical for my tastes.
Actually, “The Long Rain” was written by Bradbury. I am a big fan of Asimov as well (and Paul Anderson, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederick Pohl, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, et centera ad infnitum....).
Actually, “The Long Rain” was written by Bradbury. I am a big fan of Asimov as well (and Paul Anderson, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederick Pohl, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, et centera ad infnitum....).
:’)
Oops.
My favorite of Bradbury’s is “The Dragon”.
Must be all those Venusian SUVs...
the ENTIRE planet of Venus is GAY?
Yes. Yes it is. ALL lesbians. Civ and I will give you a direct report. Unless, of course, you would rather report directly to us.
Dark they were and golden-eyed ...
I thought it was merely shocking blue.
It will be like going bowling. I promise.
(She’s got it)
:) weirdo. :)
Me too.
And I remember Orson Welles' Mars Invasion on Mercury Theater in '38.
I had listened to the program on radio (War of the Worlds), and was amazed to see pictures of New Jersey residents hunkering out in the fields with rifles in the next day's newspaper. News didn't travel fast in those days.
Got it in one. (She's got it!) I think I like you ;-))
:)
You're BOTH lesbians???
;P
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