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2. Galileo at Venus
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2. Galileo at Venus

A human visitor looking out the window of a spacecraft approaching Venus might see something like this image taken with the violet filter on Galileo’s Solid State Imaging System and false-colored in yellow hues. In visible light Venus is a nearly featureless ball that appears yellow because of sulfuric acid cloud cover in the dense, predominantly carbon dioxide atmosphere.

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