What sort of atmosphere has Venus?
On March 1st of last year, the Russian space craft Venus III landed with a bang on the surface of the planet Venus. It was expected to relay back data on the dense atmosphere. But its instruments failed. Our knowledge of cloudy Venus has been gathered by a variety of other space probes. The surface of golden Venus is so thickly veiled in dense clouds that it has never been seen by human eyes. The most powerful telescope cannot pierce the dense atmosphere and photograph its surface. This situation is very tantalizing to astronomers, especially since Venus comes closer to us than any other planet. A variety of probes have been used to solve the nature of the atmosphere of Venus, but the details steal are shrouded in mystery. However, every successful attempt adds a little more information. And, as a rule, each fruitful try poses a few possibilities to be checked by future probes. The first sizable mass of data was gathered by our spacecraft Mariner II on December 14, 1962. This little sp
