Atmosphere Quote by Andre Brie

There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds.…

— David Grinspoon

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create…

— Sarah Zettel

As a young planet, Venus was losing hydrogen rapidly to space. The oceans boiled off, and after some period of time, perhaps 600 million…

— David Grinspoon

There are other planets besides the Earth and Mars. I'd like to remind you that studying Venus is vital to understanding life elsewhere.

— David Grinspoon

It's one of the big mysteries about Venus: How did it get so different from Earth when it seems likely to have started so…

— David Grinspoon

“Observation: there was absolutely nothing to see on Venus. Conclusion: it must be covered with life.”

— Carl Sagan

“Venus is kept that way by a thick, dense atmosphere that’s full of carbon dioxide. It’s the greenhouse effect gone wild—runaway, as it is…

— Bill Nye

“Venus is very much like Earth in size and composition, but its surface temperature is about 460° C (860 F), hotter than your oven…

— Bill Nye

Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus…

— Nicholas Kurti

Among the plausible niches for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, the clouds of Venus are among the most accessible and the least well…

— David Grinspoon

We thought of Uranus's atmosphere as pretty much dead. And it's not.

— Heidi Hammel