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Science 19 January 1968:
Vol. 159. no. 3812, p. 305
DOI: 10.1126/science.159.3812.305
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Venus: Uniformity of Clouds, and Photography

George T. Keene 1

1 Apparatus Division, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York

Photographs of Earth at a resolution of about 600 kilometers were compared to pictures of Venus taken from Earth at about the same resolution . Under these conditions Earth appear very heavily covered by clouds. Since details on the surface of Earth can be recorded from Earth orbit, it may be possible to phiotograph protions of the surface of Venus, through openings in the clouds, from an orbiting satellite.

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