Part C:  What Kind of Ice?

Ice On

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Please discuss these questions with your classmates:

1. Could the white areas could actually be water ice?
2. If not, what might the white areas be? Some other kind of ice?
3. What other kinds of ice might there be that could exist on Venus?

After you have shared ideas, you may be interested
in reading this Article from Sky and Telescope magazine.

You may also be interested this NASA Press Release
about how radar imaging is being use to monitor volcanoes on Earth.

 

Please send  questions or suggestions to:
SEGway outreach: outreach@ssl.berkeley.edu

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