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Dan McKenzie on What Venus Can Tell Us About the Earth
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Jul 29, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Why look to another planet to reveal something new about the Earth? Dan McKenzie describes an ingenious way of using the data sent back from the Magellan Venus orbiter to discover that Venus is covered with an elastic plate about 30 kilometers thick. Explaining this very unexpected result revealed something extraordinary about the Earth.
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For more on Geology Bites, go to geologybites.com, where you can also find diagrams and pictures that support the podcast.
Released:
Jul 29, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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