Venus Radar Request, From Earth |
Venus Radar Request, From Earth |
Mar 7 2006, 02:43 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
I'm looking for earth based radar mapping of Venus.
I've had a hard time finding much. I clearly remember seeing images in books as a child. Any help would be great! |
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Mar 7 2006, 08:58 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
The only fly in this pudding is that there is a weird near-synchronicity between the rotation period of Venus and the position of inferior conjunctions with Earth. Very-Very nearly the same hemisphere of Venus faces Earth each conjunction! It's not quite exact, but it is improbably close. They've tried to see if the small tidal pull of Earth on Venus at inferior conjuction was more than vanishingly small and might explain this cooincidence, but it seems to be unlikely. The best idea I've heard so far is that the gods must be crazy.
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Mar 7 2006, 09:46 AM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
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