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Seen through the telescope, the «wirliiig cloud • ^ that coven the planet ohscnxes the snzface completely. However, orbiting American and Russian spacecraft equipped with radar imaging systems have revealed a land of vast plains, high ^aks, impact craten, volcanoes and great lava I flows. The Russian Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft I actually went through the cloud to land on the surface, and sent back photographs of flat slabs of volcanic-like rock, before being consumed by the heat; for two hours Venera 13 sent back pictures from the surface.

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re 1km'jemtl at the Skf»,
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nilM, is « hostile eaviraeaieBt, an inferao wUk ¦
a aemehiag hot sniface, a fliicfc, choUag ' .
and eland eoner
atmosphoM of caAoBdiagdde and cloud cover : xich ia mtlphasle acid. The atmospheric ptessue. at th« surface is 92 tines that on EarOi. Veins is no place liDr Bflaa. ,
Seen through the telescope, the «wirliiig cloud • ^ that coven the planet ohscnxes the snzface completely. However, orbiting American and Russian spacecraft equipped with radar imaging systems have revealed a land of vast plains, high ^aks, impact craten, volcanoes and great lava I flows. The Russian Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft I actually went through the cloud to land on the surface, and sent back photographs of flat slabs of volcanic-like rock, before being consumed by the heat; for two hours Venera 13 sent back pictures from the surface.

g,: In his new book Sir Patrick explains how this hostile but beautiful planet evolved, and investigates our past and present knowledge of Venus. The earliest known observations were
f Babylonian; Venus was the 'Bright Torch of Heaven', the mother of the gods and the U personification of women. The Greeks named it after their goddess of beauty. The Maya, Aztecs and Inca all observed Venus, and of course our . r fascination with our near neighbour in space,
the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and ;;; - the Moon, continues today. This book introducei||' '^ the planet to readers looking to journey further into the mysteries of our solar system and is a fitting companion to Sir Patrick's earlier books on Mars and the Moon.

Sir Patrick Moore CBE FRS, Britain's best known astronomer, has over 50 years attracted and held a vast audience through his many books and television appearances. He has presented every edition of the The Sky at Night '?i-since it was first broadcast in April 1957, a world record in television, and to universal ^ ^^ acclaim won a Lifetime Achievement Award for ^ his services to television at the 2001 BAFTA Awards, presented to him by the astronaut Buzz % Aldrin. He is a Fellow and Past President of the Royal Astronomical Society^ was awarded the ^^ CBE in 1988 and his knighthood in 2000. An enthusiastic communicator, he has done more to popularise the study of astronomy than any J
other writer of his or subsequent generations.

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where the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east and a day is longer than a year. Sir Patrick Moore explores this alien world,
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