Venus
Posted March 1, 2022
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We kick off Season 4 by getting up close and personal with Earth's other, less popular, more mysterious neighbor: Venus!
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[Trivia Question]
Venera missions
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1970-060A
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chronology_venus.html
[Fact Off]
Venus tables & Maya Codex of Mexico
https://www.mesoweb.com/articles/Coe_etal/Fourth_Codex.pdf
https://www.brown.edu/news/2016-09-07/mayacodex
https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017062/mayan-moment
Phosphene/ammonia on Venus (and microbial life possibility)
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/938538
https://news.mit.edu/2020/life-venus-phosphine-0914
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-life-clouds.html
https://venuscloudlife.com/venus-life-finder-mission-study/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7381915/
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/52/e2110889118
[Ask the Science Couch]
Pictures of the surface of Venus
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/v09_lander_proc.html
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/venera-13/in-depth/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueMGZTezfY
https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/exploring-the-planets/online/solar-system/venus/magellan.cfm
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3728
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe-instruments
[Butt One More Thing]
Venus cloacina goddess
https://drainfast.co.uk/blog/cloacina-goddess-sewers/
https://books.google.com/books?id=SYqFBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128#v=onepage&q&f=false