Space and Exploration

Mars! Mars! Mars!

Mars, Mars, Mars! Why Mars? Why not Venus?

Brian Cox says the problem is the surface temperature is around 800 degrees, slightly more than a summer in Alabama. Plus the atmospheric pressure is 90x that of Earth, more than the A train in New York at rush hour. And if you survive that, the rain is mostly sulfuric acid, so you’d melt like the Wicked Witch.

Joe Ditzel

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