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Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan was an American astronomer who worked with NASA on space missions to planets like Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. His discoveries included determining the high temperatures on these planets and studying their atmospheres and seasonal changes. He believed that other stars likely had their own planets and life existed throughout the universe. Sagan helped select Mars landing sites for Viking probes and codesigned messages from Earth attached to Pioneer and Voyager probes launched outside our solar system.

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Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan was an American astronomer who worked with NASA on space missions to planets like Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. His discoveries included determining the high temperatures on these planets and studying their atmospheres and seasonal changes. He believed that other stars likely had their own planets and life existed throughout the universe. Sagan helped select Mars landing sites for Viking probes and codesigned messages from Earth attached to Pioneer and Voyager probes launched outside our solar system.

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CARL SAGAN

Carl Sagan is an American astronomer and had worked with Nasa in space
missions to Venus, mars and Jupiter in particular his discoveries were of
the high temperatures in the planets he also worked on the atmospheres
and seasonal changes of mars and Jupiter. Carl’s theories were that the
unknown starts and suns might have their own planets too and life is
everywhere he was interested in studying the possibilities about life further
Earth. He helped in selecting the mars landing sites for the Viking probes,
and he codesigned the messages from Earth that were attached to the
pioneer and voyager probes that were launched out of the solar system.
When carl studied about planetary atmospheres he discovered, that Venus
high temperature was then it was previously suspected. He also discovered
the windblow dust and the reddish haze on titan complex organic molecules
He predicted the surface of Venus would be insanely hot he with other
astronomers-built mariner 2 and was the first successful mission to fly by a
planet.

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