David Harry Grinspoon
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Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet
David Harry Grinspoon
Early robot probes sent by Russian and American scientists had given us some tantalizing but fragmentary glimpses of the surface and atmosphere, hinting at some of the most exotic conditions seen in the solar system. Magellan showed a planet full of beautiful landscapes, some eerily familiar and some completely unexpected—a world of active volcanoes, shining mountains, and even river valleys carved by torrents of flowing lava. Venus may once have had a wet, temperate, comfortable climate, much like Earth’s. What happened to turn it into a hostile, burning, acid…
