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Anonymous Coward
12/1/2007
11:48 am
| Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
Should we talk about the weather?
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Anonymous Coward
12/1/2007
1:15 pm
| Re: Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
If the surface of Venus is really so hot how did the venus probes land with parachutes, wouldn't the 'chutes have burned up in the atmosphere?
Maybe the lunar and mars missions are diversions from the real target: Venus, planet of sexy ETs |
Anonymous Coward
12/1/2007
1:20 pm
| Re: Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
she's getting closer |
Anonymous Coward
12/1/2007
1:22 pm
| Re: Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
Link? |
Anonymous Coward
12/1/2007
1:23 pm
| Re: Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
actually there is one
if you ask me nice i might throw it down |
Anonymous Coward
12/1/2007
1:23 pm
| Re: Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
The early soviet space program threw all its money at Venus. Were they expecting to find something there? |
Anonymous Coward
12/1/2007
1:25 pm
| Re: Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
Venus, planet of sexy ETs
Also known as the Athenians |
Anonymous Coward
12/1/2007
1:26 pm
| Re: Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
march 2009 is pretty close |
Anonymous Coward
12/1/2007
1:29 pm
| Re: Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
Thaller, of NASA and CIT
Interestingly, we can't simply blame a higher amount of carbon dioxide for Venus's fate. Remember that Venus is the most similar planet to earth chemically? Pound-for-pound, Venus and Earth have about the same total amount of carbon dioxide. The difference lies in how the two planets put that gas to use. Most people have heard that plants use carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, releasing a waste gas called oxygen in return. The result is that plant life on Earth (including the incredibly significant tiny sea algaes and planktons) scrubs a massive amount of carbon dioxide out of our air.
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Emperor Kenton
12/1/2007
3:11 pm
| Re: Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
Did you know that it rains on Jupiter?
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Anvil clouds tower more than 30 miles high, casting a pall over a hazy sky. Amid the gathering gloom, 100 mph winds whip clouds across the sky, while lightning punctuates the tumult repeatedly. Meanwhile, clouds from yet another giant storm dump several inches of rain daily over an area more than 600 miles on one side.
Given that severity, and thunderheads three times as high as we see in North America, this storm is obviously not on Earth, although the storms have similarities to terrestrial weather systems. This is Jupiter.
Where it is warm near the Earth's surface in the summer and cooler aloft, condensation rises and forms many cells of intense thunder clouds over a vast area. These summertime giants can last for hours, even days, and dump unusually large amounts of rain. On Jupiter, they can also last from about 12 hours to several Earth days, producing huge quantities of rain.
linky poo
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/
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princess poopy pants
12/1/2007
3:32 pm
| Re: Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
my ass has frequent bursts of thunder |
Anonymous Coward
2/27/2009
6:21 pm
| RE: Venus has frequent bursts of lightning
base linky poo |
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