Posted on 07/03/2023 12:04:53 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Why is Venus so different from Earth? To help find out, Japan launched the robotic Akatsuki spacecraft which entered orbit around Venus late in 2015 after an unplanned five-year adventure around the inner Solar System. Even though Akatsuki was past its original planned lifetime, the spacecraft and instruments were operating so well that much of its original mission was reinstated. Also known as the Venus Climate Orbiter, Akatsuki's instruments investigated unknowns about Earth's sister planet, including whether volcanoes are still active, whether lightning occurs in the dense atmosphere, and why wind speeds greatly exceed the planet's rotation speed. In the featured image taken by Akatsuki's UVI camera, the day-side of Venus is seen shown with planet-scale V-shaped cloud pattern. The image displays three ultraviolet colors and indicates a dip in the relative abundance of sulfur dioxide shown in faint blue. Analyses of Akatsuki images and data has shown, among other discoveries, that Venus has equatorial jet similar to Earth's jet stream.
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Venus, view of the northern hemisphere based on radar data from the Magellan spacecraft. NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00271)
Whew, at first I thought it was a photo of Hillarys hemorrhoid.
Might as well be.
The surface temp would melt lead........................
Beautiful.
Saved.
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And here kave the surface of Mars from pretty far up...
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Please excuse my 'fimble-fungers'...
Venus is Mars with heavy cloud cover?
If only the Venetians had electric cars sooner....
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The surface of Venus looks more like Mercury - but Mercury has no atmosphere at all.
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Mars has little atmosphere because the minimal magnetic field allowed solar wind to sweep its atmosphere away.
Venus also has minimal magnetic field, is much closer to the Sun and therefor a much stronger solar wind flux, but has a very, very thick atmosphere.
Go figure...
Trust NOTHING you find on the internet...
Okay - Too many errors on my part.
I'm going to quit posting for the rest of today.
What sort of photos did the 1960s Russian Venera craft send back, do you know? I always thought it was pretty impressive that anything could land there at all and survive, even if only for a few seconds or minutes.
Pretty colors.
beautiful
I agree. The Soviets actually managed to land a half dozen or so landers on Venus in the 1970s that sent back quite a bit of data. In fact, the first Venera was the first craft to successfully land on another planet.
In the upper atmosphere, where the pressure is close to earth surface, the temperature is also moderate.
I could see floating cloud cities and dirigibles.
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