So much more cool stuff to be had at www.scienceblogs.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Soviets threw more than 20 landers at Venus during the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s and they collectively (Ha! Soviet joke!) managed to send back about 6 pictures of the surface before being snuffed out by the Hellish conditions.<\/p>\n
But what I really have always adored about Venus is the fact that it is calmly, serenely, eternally spinning in the wrong direction<\/strong>. Just about everything in the known universe spins counter-clockwise, around itself and around its orbit.<\/p>\nBut Venus, stately, slow-moving, excellent posture Venus spins resolutely deosil as it makes its way around our sun, utterly baffling Scientists from today all the way back to 2000 B.C., when we first tracked its movements.<\/p>\n
(Bonus witchy factoid: The movements of Venus [as viewed from Earth] form a perfect, curly-cued pentagram. [see diagram up there a-ways])<\/p>\n
Note: Technically Uranus also spins \u2018backwards\u2019, but really its on its side. The rest of our solar system spins like tops: Uranus rolls around the Sun like a marble.<\/p>\n
What I like most about Venus is its calm uniqueness. Mars is the planet of Guys and WAR and lookatmelookatme. Venus is like, \u201cWhatever. I\u2019ll just be over here doing my own thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
And yeah, it tickles me to bits that places like \u201cIshtar Terra\u201d \u201cAphrodite Terra\u201d and \u201cEve\u201d actually resemble scenes from Dante\u2019s Inferno \u2013 if it was staged inside our own stomachs.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wistful: Who told you they loved you last?<\/em><\/p>\nDear Wistful,<\/p>\n
To my knowledge nobody has ever said to me that they loved me last.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
~Ask Angus<\/p>\n
Angus McMahan<\/p>\n
Send your questions to: angusmcmahan@gmail.com<\/p>\n
P.S. So proud of myself for not making a \u201cUranas\u201d joke. Strictly the high road around here!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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