Until very recently, all we really knew about Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor, was that it was roughly the same size and mass as the earth an...
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Dec 22, 2010
Joe
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I think what I liked best about this book is the author's (fleeting but refreshing) attitude of exploration for exploration's sake. Venus' surface is so hot that it glows red in the dark, there's but a trace of water in the atmosphere, and it rains battery acid. We're probably not going to live there anytime soon (besides the fact that we'd be moving 30 percent closer to the life-giving time bomb we orbit)... but we should go nonetheless!
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