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Venus is the closest planet to Earth, and yet it retains an aura of mystery. The thick layer of clouds hiding its surface has long frustrated efforts to take a close look at the Venusian landscape...
...pick up features as small as 120 meters (394 ft.) across, 10 times smaller than anything ever seen before. That should be enough to begin answering some important questions about the geology and atmosphere of the planet. Although nearly the same size as Earth, Venus has an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. These gases have created an atmospheric pressure at the surface 90 times that of Earth and led to a greenhouse effect that keeps the temperature at 470 degrees C (900 degrees F), hot enough to melt lead and ensure that liquid water cannot exist...
...progressed further, the embryonic gap might have created a body of water like the Red Sea, which is slowly widening into an ocean. But hundreds of millions of years ago, the Midwestern rift stopped growing. The New Madrid fault today simply marks a weak spot in the thick midcontinental crust, which periodically ruptures under the pressure exerted by the migrating North American plate. It could take 500 to 1,000 years for enough force to accumulate to trigger a really big quake...
Fundamental to Heaney's success is his ability to recreate his native landscape on the page. The smoothness of the hills and the scuff of gravel under thick-soled shoes make themselves felt not just in the words' literal meaning but in the assonance and consonance of their sound. It is a world whose outer forms are rounded, full with what lies beneath. This external landscape then becomes a thing to be explored, dug into, its inner forms revealed...
...Roman brick and terra cotta are suggested on the tower by a skin of brownish and amber brick in five shades, and the molding and cornice lines of Carnegie's beaux arts facade are continued across the front of Pelli's building. The high-rise is wrapped by thick metal bands at six-floor intervals corresponding to the older building's height...