I'll bet you didn't know 29 November, 2020 ...
LWW
Loc: Banana Republic of America
Snow on the planet Venus is metal.
Shoveling snow on Venus would be a real PIA.
LWW
Loc: Banana Republic of America
Peterfiore wrote:
Shoveling snow on Venus would be a real PIA.
Once you dress in the appropriate air conditioned asbestos suit, it probably isn't too bad.
LWW wrote:
Once you dress in the appropriate air conditioned asbestos suit, it probably isn't too bad.
That I already have...; )
Marcus Hammonds at Discovery, as quoted by Smithsonian:
As we now understand it, the snow on Venus’ surface is probably more similar to frost. On the lower Venusian plains, temperatures reach a searing 480°C (894°F). This is hot enough that reflective pyrite minerals on the planet’s surface are vaporized, entering the atmosphere as a kind of metallic mist, leaving only the dark volcanic rocks like basalt in the Venusian lowlands.
At higher altitudes, this mist condenses, forming shiny, metallic frost on the tops of the mountains. And Earth’s simmering sibling has plenty of high altitude terrain. Maxwell Montes, the tallest peak on Venus, stands at an altitude of 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) — 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) higher than Mount Everest.
LWW wrote:
Once you dress in the appropriate air conditioned asbestos suit, it probably isn't too bad.
I think the atmosphere is corrosive enough that asbestos wouldn't last long. Certainly the probes that have been sent to the surface of venus have had very short lives.
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