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Meteorology
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1: Title
2: Essential Questions
3: Black Bodies and Radiation
4: Temperature and Distance
5: Temperature and Distance: Data
6: Temperature and Distance: A Constant?
7: What Do You Think?
8: What Else Can Effect the Temperature of a Planet?
9: What About Venus?
10: Planetary Atmospheres
11: Key Points: Planetary Temperature
12: Evaluate Your Learning
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What About Venus?
These factors still don’t explain the huge different in Venus’ temperature. So, What’s Going On?
Clearly, Venus is much hotter than its distance from the Sun would suggest. Let’s compare Venus to the other three inner planets using another variable…
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Photojournal | NASA