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New Results From Venus Express
Riding with Robots writes "For the past two years, Europe's Venus Express orbiter has been studying Earth's planetary neighbor up close. Today, mission scientists have released a new collection of findings and amazing images. They include evidence of lightning and other results that flesh out a portrait of a planet that is in many ways like ours, and in other ways hellishly different, such as surface temperatures over 400C and air pressure a hundred times that on Earth. The article lists seven papers that will be published today in Nature."
The article is about Venus, not Urectum.
Should have gone with Uranus.
Heard this on NPR last night about how it may of had oceans at one time and they may have evaporated due to climate change (caused by solar flairs).
That sparked a debate between me and the other passengers about evolution via traveling to earth from Venus and the thought of doing the same to Mars...
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In NASA the imaginary clouds don't move.
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Ahh, dense and full of hot air. Definetly proof that women come from there!
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The problem with Uranus is: no one can go near it because of the toxic gases.
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is it just me or does the photo captioned 'Interaction between Venus and the solar wind' look like something you'd see on random japanese anime with large robots and people shooting beams from their hands?
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on a more serious note, pretty pictures
The next headline from a Venusian lander will be "Lander finds newspaper with headline 'President claims Global Warming a myth'".
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Interesting to note the stripping of the atmosphere by the solar winds - yet - it's still incredibly dense for millenia. "Something" is replenishing it doncha think?
a planet that is in many ways like ours, and in other ways hellishly different, such as surface temperatures over 400C
Sounds like Canada in the springtime, in the 2080's.
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I would think the first step would be to boost the planet to an orbit further away from the sun. Speeding up it's orbit would do that, but I wonder if anyone conceived of a method of doing so?
If you post it, they will read.
Sun: We need to talk about your flair.
Venus: Really? I have 15 pieces on. I also...
Sun: Well, 15 is the minimum, okay?
Venus: Oh, okay.
Sun: Now, you know, it's up to you whether or not you wanna just do the bare minimum or...well, like Earth for example, has 37 pieces of flair on today. And a terrific smile.
The missing factor is the spin. A Venus day is nearly as long as a Venus year. Earth's relatively rapid spin, acting upon its molten iron core, generates a powerful magnetic field which blocks the effect of the solar wind. We were lucky enough to have been sideswiped early in our planetary history with a large object, with the broken-off bits coalescing into the moon and the planet itself given a rapid spin. So really, it's the absence of spin rather than the presence of carbon dioxide that made the outcomes so different. On the other hand, the moon's tidal effect is acting as a brake on our rotation. Some billions of years from now, the Earth will constantly present the same side to the moon, just as the moon does to us now. Whatever is around at that time will be in big trouble. We can expect the climate alarmists to provide additional spin, but it's probably not going to be enough.
That would be news in ancient Rome.
4 billion years from now the sun will have swallowed the earth and all the inner planets as it expands into a red giant. A slowing rotation will be the least of our worries. Still I've always thought that Venus would make a better planet for us to live on than Mars if we could change the rotation and overcome the rampant global warming. Its the only planet in the solar system that spins the other way. So whatever hit it early on did a lot bigger number on it than just creating a moon.
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I always wondered why Doom takes place on Mars. Venus would be so much more appropriate.
That probe sure took some stunning artist rendition images!
They include evidence of lightning and other results that flesh out a portrait of a planet that is in many ways like ours, and in other ways hellishly different, such as surface temperatures over 400C and air pressure a hundred times that on Earth.
This almost makes it sound like the tempurature and pressure are news. Various Soviet and US probes have already landed on the surface and measured both the tempurature and pressure.
Table-ized A.I.
Lightning is surprising because the "clouds" on venus are more accurately just blankets of Co2. We'd call that smog.
It would certainly be newsworthy if our Earthly smog suddenly began producing an electric charge.
The current Federal Administration is aware of this difference, and has a plan to bring the surface temperatures of Earth and Venus more closely into alignment.
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Whaatt? There's air on Venus?
... realizing that Venus Express probe has mistakenly been monitoring downtown Tehran.
Have gnu, will travel.
You would not want to change the orbit. The solar system is stable now meaningthat the orbit of one inner planet does not effect the orbit of the others (much) but if you were to move Venus outward that would have an effect on Earth's orbit. Possibly een making the system unstable. You would not really want a planey ejected into space away from the Sun or into the sun. In the eraly solar system this kind of thinnk happend, that and major collisions too. What we have left is just the bits that are stable.
You could in theory move Venus by sending many thousend of asteriods into orbits that would intersect venus and eventually interact with venus such that venus deflects them. When venus pushes an asteriod in one direction it "pushes itself" in the other direction. Over thousands of years one could move a planet this way. But again you would nt want to do this even if you could. many peoppe thing there is ONLY one stable configuration and that is what we have now.
I'm sure that the beings living on Venus are sure that life cannot exist on the frozen vacuum that is Earth.
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