Posted on 02/11/2022 4:21:03 AM PST by C210N
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space.
Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum – the type of light that the human eye can see – and extending into the near-infrared.
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If the corrosive atmosphere didn't dissolve you first.
Charming place.
Surface gravity on Venus is 0.88 that of earth.
If you weighed 1800 lbs on Venus, you'd weigh 2045 lbs on Earth. I'm looking forward to your 'My 2000 lb Life' TV show...
MATH!
No you would not. Weight is mass not pressure.
” It’s liquid at 1 atmosphere. I seriously doubt that Venus is at 1 ATM.”
Venus is about the size of our earth. Why would atmospheric pressure there be great enough to have liquid water at 800 degrees?
or this spin off “528# Sisters”.
Liquid water is a phenomenon due to pressure. The more pressure, the greater the range of temperatures at which a substance will be liquid. On your stove, water boils at about 100 degrees, significantly less if you live at high altitudes. So, if you want to use water to cook food to a higher temperature, you get a “pressure cooker,” so the water stays liquid at much higher temperatures. If you make the pressure many, many times the air pressure on Earth, yes, you can make water liquid.
Just an additional interesting fact: At normal pressures, water displays a wierd property of expanding when it freezes. If you freeze water at much higher pressures, the molecules will arrange in a more compact formation, making a different type of solid water, other than familiar ice.
>> Venus is about the size of our earth. Why would atmospheric pressure there be great enough to have liquid water at 800 degrees? <<
The key is to think of air pressure as the weight of the atmosphere above you. It’s not that Mars has a stronger gravity to pull its atmosphere down more forcefully; It’s that Mars has hundreds of time more atmosphere to pull down. Yes, you can get crushed more by a certain weight on a bigger planet, but, of course, you can get crushed more on the same-sized planet with a bigger weight, right?
I don’t know why I said, “Mars.” We’re obviously talking about Venus. Mars is both significantly smaller, and has far, far LESS atmosphere than Earth.
Venus would make you look fat!
The Venusians should have switched to electric SUVs sooner...
Jupiter might be what you are looking for.
At 90bars (Venus atmospheric pressure) water boils at about 580 degrees F, so there is no liquid water on venus, if the ground temp is 860 degrees.
https://www.myengineeringtools.com/Data_Diagrams/Water_Boiling_Point_Vs_Pressure.html
Me or the 1800 lb atc?
Sorry atc, I was attempting to address atc23’s comment.
Why is the atmospheric pressure so high on Venus?
Because Venus has such a dense atmosphere which is some 100 times thicker than the earth's. Evidently, Venus is sufficiently close to the Sun that the little carbon dioxide it had in its early, Earth-like atmosphere caused the surface to warm up and leach out more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This in turn caused the atmosphere to get warmer in a so-called runaway Greenhouse Effect. Very quickly, much of the carbon dioxide that was originally trapped in the surface rocks wound up in a thick atmosphere which now regulates the surface temperature at about 882 F.
Either a) this is what global warmers freak out about, thinking it could happen here, or b) global warmers wrote this to freak the rest of us out. I'll go with 'global warmer freak out' for $500, Alex
Why?
We're told because it has no magnetic field to protect it from having solar wind sandblast its early atmosphere off into space.
Yet Venus is closer to the sandblaster, and also has no magnetic field to protect its massively thick atmosphere from being sandblasted into space.
Computer generated image or enhanced? Don’t know and don’t care unless it can make the FungYouFlu and the fed gov go the hell away!!!
I’ll go with 100% bullmanure for $1000, Alex.
There is no fat shaming on Jupiter.
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