Venus, long known as the hottest planet in the Solar System, may have a layer of atmosphere so cold that carbon dioxide freezes and falls as ice or snow.
A new paper describes this atmospheric layer, located 125 kilometres above Venus' surface. Scientists announced the finding 1 October after analysing five years of data from the orbiting Venus Express spacecraft.
By: Elizabeth Howell, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/03/cold-layer-on-hottest-plannet
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