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Patrick Moore has taken readers to Mars and the Moon--and now, this world-famous astronomer leads a guided tour of Venus, where the atmospheric pressure is 92 times that of Earth, temperatures are scorching, and the atmosphere bubbles with toxic clouds. Orbiting spacecraft with radar imaging systems have turned up new, intriguing, and even disturbing information about our nearest neighbor: a gallery of photos from recent flybys--plus telescope and spectroscope images and computer-generated illustrations--provide these latest views of Venus. Your visual adventure will take you through vast plains, soaring peaks, deep craters, and great lava flows, many times more dramatic than their earthly counterparts. Looking up at the bright "morning star" will never be the same.