Venus Probes Report: Earth is the Oddball
JAN 01, 1968
DOI: 10.1063/1.3034689
The atmosphere of Venus is almost all carbon dioxide; below the atmosphere the climate is very dry and hot, and the pressure is 15 to 20 times that on earth. This is the forbidding picture of Venusian meteorological conditions that has emerged from the data sent back by Russia’s Venus IV spacecraft and by the US Mariner V.
© 1968. American Institute of Physics
