Polar Temperature of Venus
- 26 September 1969
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 165 (3900) , 1356-1357
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.165.3900.1356
Abstract
The presence of substantial polar cooling of Venus, as derived from microwave interferometry at 10.6 cm wavelength, is shown to be open to doubt. Other microwave measurements give little evidence for significant poleward variation in temperature on the planet.Keywords
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