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PARK SQ. CINEMA. Blende Venus 6 & 9:45. Scarlet Empress...
...contrast to their earlier, almost paranoiac secrecy, the Soviets now talk more freely about their space program. At one interview, the chief scientists of Russia's recent Mars and Venus probes...
Venera confirmed readings by earlier Soviet and U.S. missions indicating that the temperature on the surface of Venus is about 880° F-hot enough to melt lead. The spacecraft also revealed that Venusian surface material is only about half the density of soil on earth...
...facing the earth was in darkness when Venera 8 arrived, but the Russians managed to land their spacecraft in the narrow crescent that was illuminated by the sun. With the aid of Venera's photometer, Soviet scientists could determine that about two-thirds of the solar radiation striking Venus penetrates the thick cloud cover and reaches the surface. Thus there is a long (about 116 earth days) period of daylight as well as a lengthy nighttime on the surface of Venus, which revolves on its axis only once every 243 earth days. Surprisingly, the surface does not cool during...
...descent, the Russians also measured Venusian winds of 110 m.p.h. at an altitude of 30 miles, comparable to the speed of the earth's jet streams. Near the surface, however, they clocked winds of only about four m.p.h. Some scientists believe that the winds are stirred up by Venus' rotation, since they seem to blow only in the direction of the planet's spin...