The Greenhouse Effect on Venus
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT ON VENUS
The greenhouse effect refers to a condition on Venus in which solar heating of the upper atmosphere at the short wavelengths of visible light radiation results in warming of the atmosphere, but the longer wavelengths of thermal radiation in the lower atmosphere cannot penetrate the atmosphere and reradiate to space. As a result, the temperature of the atmosphere continually increased.
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