V V-2 rocket, 18 Van Allen radiation belt, 19, 97 Venus atmosphere, 3, 5, 104, 105, 112 atmospheric temperature, 85 atmospheric winds, 5 CO₂ content above clouds, 106 cloud cover, 105, 106 cloud observations, 104, 105 clouds, data, 111 compared with Earth, 5 description, 4 dielectric constant, surface material, 107 encounter, 93, 94 historical data, 2 inferior and superior conjunctions, 4 magnetic field, 98, 100, 111 comparison with geomagnetic, 100, 101 data, 100, 101, 102 strength, 100, 101, 102 mass, 109, 111 orbit, 4 radar experiments, 1961, 106, 107 radar experiments during mission, 107 reflection coefficient, 107 revolution, 4 rotation, 4, 101, 108, 111 surface, 106 brightness temperature, 103, 104 characteristics, theories, 102, 103 “greenhouse” effect, 106 measurements, 103, 104 pressure, 112 reflectivity, 111 roughness, 107, 108 temperature, 106, 111 temperature, 85, 111 topography, 5 water vapor in atmosphere, 106 Venus encounter, 63 W WAC Corporal, 18 Woomera Tracking Station, 67, 68, 75 equipment, 68, 71, 73 Transcriber’s Notes —Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. —In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_. —Silently corrected a few typos. —In the index, entry “propellant storage”, replaced one nonsensical page number (200) with a plausible conjecture (38). End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Mariner Mission to Venus, by Jet Propulsion Laboratory