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Venus Express has mapped heat patterns on the planet's Idunn Mons peak, depicted here. Red is warmest.ESA, JPL, NASA

1 posted on 11/26/2011 8:07:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv

To: SunkenCiv

That’s about 130 degrees Celsius below the temp of molten rock.

5 posted on 11/26/2011 8:28:09 PM PST by Track9

To: SunkenCiv

Interesting.

8 posted on 11/26/2011 8:40:18 PM PST by svcw (God's Grace - thank you!)

To: SunkenCiv

It was certainly smart of our astronauts to leave the US flag on Mars, not on Vernus—it would have burned up on Venus.

12 posted on 11/26/2011 8:52:38 PM PST by Verginius Rufus

To: SunkenCiv

There’s another Hawai’i on Venus — woo hoo!

Now we can enjoy a tropical paraidse without all the goofy place names.

18 posted on 11/27/2011 6:54:37 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)

To: SunkenCiv

A runaway greenhouse effect has heated the planet’s surface to a smoldering 470˚ Celsius

Well, it's not the heat, it's the humidity....

22 posted on 11/27/2011 11:24:07 AM PST by GreenHornet

To: SunkenCiv

...the planet's surface... a smoldering 470° Celsius..

Must be all those Venusian SUVs...

28 posted on 11/27/2011 2:00:43 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)

To: SunkenCiv

wait...they painted their mountain a RAINBOW?

the ENTIRE planet of Venus is GAY?

30 posted on 11/27/2011 2:07:26 PM PST by ZinGirl

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