Kevin Knuth

or north of Albany.

I drove from Montreal to Albany through a snowstorm.

And now we're down here, and it's, what, 60 degrees and sunny, and I hope to go to the botanical garden before I leave or something, right?

So the atmospheres are quite variable.

And now you go from Earth to Venus...

Venus's atmosphere has 100 times the air pressure on Earth, which would crush you.

And it's about 800 degrees Fahrenheit.

And actually, I was at NASA Ames when the Magellan probe was doing radar mapping of Venus.

And we were perplexed because the mountaintops

would become radar reflective at times and then it would fade and then they would become reflective again and fade and we're like what's going on with this these mountaintops and realized they would become reflective when the temperature would drop so the temperature would drop the mountaintops would become radar reflective and they realized what was happening is vaporized lead and bismuth was making was actually um

making snowflakes.

And so it was actually snowing lead and bismuth snow on the mountaintops.

I mean, imagine what that would, I can't imagine what that would look like to have metal snow.

I want to go there and actually see that.

But that's what they, that's a cold day in hell, by the way, when you've got metal snow raining on the mountaintops.

So that's what Venus's atmosphere is like, right?

And then you go to Mars and Mars has one one hundredth

the atmospheric pressure of Earth.

So you need a space suit.

And it's cold, you know, 100 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, something like that.