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Unveiling Venus

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Soviet space science achieved its greatest successes with the planet Venus, revealing Venus to be a very different world from what anyone had anticipated. In the 1950s, before the space age, there was a consensus that Venus was a benign world with a surface temperature of 60–75˚C, watery oceans, and exotic plants like water lilies. Using his filters in Pulkovo University, astronomer Gavril Tikhov guessed that the plants might be blue in color. A few observers predicted that Venus might be a hot, dry world, but no one wanted to listen to their gloomy prognostications.

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Harvey, B., Zakutnyaya, O. (2011). Unveiling Venus. In: Russian Space Probes. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8150-9_4

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