JOURNEY THROUGH THE UNIVERSE Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gliese 581, Liquefied Natural Gas, Venus Express
24 Feb 2023
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Venus express space probe is setting off alarms it"s telling us these dazzling clouds they "re made of deadly sulfuric acid the atmosphere is choking with carbon dioxide. Venus express is telling us something strange for its size mercury has a powerful gravitational pull. Medusa too terrible to look at too powerful to resist luring us onwards on like a moth to a flame. Sun in all its mesmerizing splendor our light our lives our lives everything we do is controlled by the sun. We see it every day a familiar face in our sky now up closes its unrecognizable the turbulent sea of incandescent gas the thermometer pushes ten thousand degrees. The sun creates life destroys it and demands we keep our distance. This is a dead planet the activity that makes the earth livable shut down millions of years ago here red and dead mars is a giant fossil.
