Heaven and Hell
1980 Science
Sagan discusses comets and asteroids as planetary impactors, giving recent examples of the Tunguska event and a lunar impact described by Canterbury monks in 1178. It moves to a description of the environment of Venus, from the previous fantastic theories of people such as Immanuel Velikovsky to the information gained by the Venera landers an ...d its implications for Earth's greenhouse effect. The Cosmos Update highlights the connection to global warming.
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Series: Cosmos
