Аннотация
Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr And The Oceanf Of Venus
To Margaret Lesser and all the girls in the department
Foreword
This book was first published in 1954, and the description of the surface of Venus was in accordance with astronomic beliefs of the period.
Since 1954, however, astronomical knowledge of the inner Solar system has advanced enormously because of the use of radar beams and rockets.
In the late 1950s, the quantity of radio waves received from Venus made it seem that the surface of Venus might be much hotter than had been thought. On August 27, 1962, a rocket probe called "Mariner II" was launched in the direction of Venus. It skimmed by within 21,000 miles of Venus on December 14, 1962. Measuring the radio waves emitted by the planet, it turned out that the surface temperature everywhere was indeed considerably higher than the boiling point of water.
This meant that far from having a worldwide ocean, as described in this book, Venus ...
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