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"The Radiation Balance of Venus." Authored by
Carl Sagan. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 15 Sept 1960. Technical Report
No. 32-34.
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"On the Origin of the Venus Microwave Emission."
Authored by Carl Sagan, K.M. Siegel, and D.E. Jones.
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| Update [22June06]: WorldCat indicates that only a single library (University of California, Riverside, which is fairly close to the JPL) owns a copy of "The Radiation Balance of Venus." "On the Origin of the Venus Microwave Emission" was published in 1961 in The Astronomical Journal. The copy supplied by the JPL is not a reprint from the journal; it appears to be the original JPL report. |
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>>> As far as I can tell, these two reports - authored or coauthored by celebrity-scientist Carl Sagan - have never been publicly released until now. My Freedom of Information Act request for these reports was forwarded to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which released them to me on 4 August 2005 (FOIA request SJ-2005-022). Sagan was one of the great popularizers of science, but unfortunately for 99.9% of us, these reports are highly technical. It would be great to discover something along the lines of Cosmos or Broca's Brain among the government's dusty files, but I'm afraid these will have to do. "On the Origins of the Venus Microwave Emission" is a short report with no cover, and no originating agency or release date is evident. Because it was cleared for release by JPL, and one of Sagan's coauthors was employed there, it seems likely that it's a JPL report. The first page contains five date stamps, the earliest one being 21 April 1961. The other report definitely originates from JPL. |
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posted 20 June 2006
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