Venus

  • Venus
    By Suzan-Lori Parks

    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 ...

  • Venus
    By Ben Bova

    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.

  • Venus
    By Betsy Rathburn

    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 ...

  • Venus
    By Dennis Brindell Fradin

    Describes the characteristics of the second closest planet to the sun.

  • Venus: Don’t Go There
    By Michael T. Santini

    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 ...

  • Venus
    By Tanya Lee Stone

    Describes the observation of Venus throughout history, spacecraft missions sent to explore the planet, and information learned about physical conditions there.

  • Venus
    By Jane Feather

    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 ...

  • Venus
    By William Sheehan, Sanjay Shridhar Limaye

    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.

  • Venus
    By Ben Bova

    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
    By B. A. Hoena

    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 ...

  • Venus
    By Jane Feather

    Previously published as "Heart's folly."

  • Venus
    By Steve Potts

    Presents facts about Venus, one of the most beautiful planets in the solar system.

  • Venus
    By Rick Loverd, Filip Sablik

    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.

  • Venus
    By Donald M. Hunten, Lawrence Colin, Thomas M. Donahue

    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 ) ...

  • Venus: The Hot and Toxic Planet
    By Ellen Lawrence

    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?

  • Venus: A Biography
    By Andrew Dalby

    The life story of the irresistibly beautiful love-goddess Venus--sensual, sexy, and seductive--as never told before.

  • Venus
    By Seymour Simon

    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
    By Roy Sheppard

    Venus: The Dark Side

  • Venus
    By Donald M. Hunten

    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.

  • Venus
    By Simone Payment

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