y family moved around a lot which, so I'm told, if you've got the inclination, can make a writer out of you. ... written some radio plays and some screenplays including Girl 6 which premiered in 1996 and was directed by Spike Lee. I'm a ...
A billionaire father offers a tenbilliondollar prize to anyone who can land on Venus and retrieve the remains of his son, who died trying to land years earlier.
Only Mars and Mercury are smaller. At 7,500 miles (12,070 kilometers) across, Venus is a little smaller than Earth. This planet is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. It usually appears just before sunrise or just after ...
Describes the characteristics of the second closest planet to the sun.
The first person to venture into outer space was cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union. On the historic date of April 12, 1961, his Vostok 1 spacecraft performed a single orbit of the earth and completed a successful landing in 108 ...
Describes the observation of Venus throughout history, spacecraft missions sent to explore the planet, and information learned about physical conditions there.
From the New York Times bestselling Jane Feather, author of To Kiss a Spy and Kissed by Shadows, comes a deliciously sensual tale of intrigue and temptation… The last thing Lord Nicholas Kincaid expected to see in the gloom of a London ...
1 E. E. Barnard, 'Physical and Micrometrical Observations of the Planet Venus Made at the Lick Observatory with the 12-inch and 36-inch Refractors', ... 406. 1 See Stephen Case, Making Stars Physical: The Astronomy of 234 vENUS.
This is where Van Humphries must go. Or die trying. His older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man on Venus, years before, and his father had always hated Van for surviving when his brother died.
VENUS In Roman myths , Venus ( VEE - nuhss ) was the goddess of love and marriage . She also was the goddess of beauty . Myths say that Venus was more beautiful than any other goddess . Ancient Greeks called her Aphrodite ( a - fruh ...
Previously published as "Heart's folly."
Presents facts about Venus, one of the most beautiful planets in the solar system.
Science fact and science fiction collide in this new story from Rick Loverd, Program Director for The Science and Entertainment Exchange, an organization that pairs expert scientists with storytellers.
The concept of eddy diffusion was introduced to Venus aeronomy by Shimizu ( 1969 ) . It became an essential part of all later one - dimensional photochemical models of the Venus upper atmosphere like those of Liu and Donahue ( 1975 ) ...
Did you know that Venus shines so brightly in the night sky that sometimes it actually casts shadows here on Earth? Or that a single day on Venus lasts as long as 243 days on Earth?
The life story of the irresistibly beautiful love-goddess Venus--sensual, sexy, and seductive--as never told before.
Our sister planet? Not even human siblings exhibit such diversity, and why this is so is an intriguing puzzle.” Newly updated (2012).
Venus: The Dark Side
No serious astronomical library can be complete without it.ÑJournal of the British Astronomical Association "The book contains the results of the exploration of Venus by spacecraft during the period 1962-1978.
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