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Title: The Planet Venus
Url: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/venus/venus.html
Publisher: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Description: This resource covers early and modern views of Venus; the general features of Venus; its cloud layer, including high velocity winds, the absence of water vapor, and the different wavelengths used to analyze the Venusian atmosphere; properties of the Venusian atmosphere; a runaway greenhouse effect (where oceans would boil and rocks would sublimate), caused by radiation trapping by greenhouse gases; surface features of Venus, including different hemispheric views, mountains, volcanoes, lava flows, rift valleys and meteor craters; and a comparison of Venus and Earth.
LC Classification: Science -- Astronomy -- Descriptive astronomy -- Solar system -- Planets. Planetology
Science -- Astronomy -- Descriptive astronomy -- Solar system -- Planets. Planetology -- Communication of planetological information
Science -- Astronomy -- Descriptive astronomy -- Solar system -- Planets. Planetology -- Communication of planetological information -- Computer network resources
Science -- Astronomy -- Descriptive astronomy -- Solar system -- Planets. Planetology -- Inferior planets -- Venus
Science -- Astronomy -- Descriptive astronomy -- Solar system -- Planets. Planetology -- Special topics, A-Z
Science -- Astronomy -- Descriptive astronomy -- Solar system -- Planets. Planetology -- Special topics, A-Z -- Atmospheres
Science -- Astronomy -- Descriptive astronomy -- Solar system -- Planets. Planetology -- Special topics, A-Z -- Geology
Science -- Astronomy -- Study and teaching. Research
Science -- Astronomy -- Theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics -- Perturbations -- Planetary theory -- Individual planets -- Venus
GEM Subject: Science
Science -- Astronomy
Science -- Space sciences
Science -- Geology
Science -- Physical sciences
Resource Type: Reference Material
Audio/Visual -- Graph
Instructional Material
Format: Document -- HTML
Audience: Educator
Learner
Education Level: High School
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Higher Education
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Lower Division)
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Lower Division)
Language: English
Access Rights: Free access
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