Ice Caps on Venus?
- 8 March 1968
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 159 (3819) , 1097-1098
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.159.3819.1097
Abstract
The data on Venus obtained by Mariner V and Venera 4 are interpreted as evidence of giant polar ice caps holding the water that must have come out of the volcanoes with the observed carbon dioxide, on the assumption that Earth and Venus are of similar composition and volcanic history. The measurements by Venera 4 of the equatorial surface temperature indicate that the microwave readings were high, so that the polar ice caps may be allowed to exist in the face of the 10-centimeter readings of polar temperature. Life seems to be distinctly possible at the edges of the ice sheets.Keywords
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