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Can anyone point to some state of the art reference on Venusian planetary science? I have some books from the 70s on the topic, but I assume more is known now.
by scottlocklin 6y ago
Can anyone point to some state of the art reference on Venusian planetary science? I have some books from the 70s on the topic, but I assume more is known now.
- _Microft 6y agoI would start with looking at Wikipedia. Either the article on Venus or a separate article on the history of exploration of Venus should have links to sources.
- karatestomp 6y agoMy usual approach: find any recent academic book on the topic, read the introduction/preface and maybe first chapter, and it’ll name-drop all the most important books and papers on the subject. Usually the Web, including Wikipedia, and outside of perhaps Library Genesis, is shockingly shallow and out-of-date. It’s usually not even capable of providing a basic list of major works like this, let alone the contents, unless you stumble on some academic’s page that happens to provide it, which is increasingly hard to do through search.
- dredds 6y agoGoogled Venus Simulation. Found Terraforming Wiki. https://terraforming.fandom.com/wiki/Venus_Simulation https://terraforming.fandom.com/wiki/Venus_Simulation
- peter303 6y agoA little dated David Grinspoons "Venus Revealed" (1998). David is a leading US expert plus science journalist. Plus Carl Sagan was a family friend. David is a frustrated Venus expert because no Venus probe has been approved in the past two decadenal space priorities.