WATER VAPOUR AROUND VENUS
Discovery By Balloonists (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SALINA (Kansas), Nov. 30. A scientist said today a 15-mile-high trip two balloonists made into the stratosphere yesterday had proved there was water vapour around the planet Venus. “We can say definitely for the first time that there is water vapour around the planet,” Dr. John Strong, Director of Astrophysics and Physical Meteorology at Johns Hopkins Univers-, ity, Baltimore, said in an interview,
The data was collected by the balloonists, Dr. Charles Moore and Commander Malcolm Ross. Dr. Strong directed the project in which Commander Ross and Dr. Moore rode in an instrumentfilled gondola under a plastic balloon to 81,000 ft. They took pictures of Venus through a 16in telescope. The three men said the presence of water vapour around Venus raised the possibility of habitation on the planet. The balloonists left today for Washington, where they will report on their flight to the Naval Research Centre.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 22
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