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Science 4 October 1968:
Vol. 162. no. 3849, pp. 114 - 116
DOI: 10.1126/science.162.3849.114
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Venus: Estimates of the Surface Temperature and Pressure from Radio and Radar Measurements

A. T. Wood Jr. 1, R. B. Wattson 2, and J. B. Pollack 3

1 Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
3 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The radio brightness temperature and radar cross section spectra of Venus are in much better accord with surface boundary conditions deduced from a combination of the Mariner V results and the radar radius than those obtained by the Venera 4 space probe. The average surface temperature and pressure are approximately 750°K and 90 atmospheres.


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