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Chapter21: Venus And Mars

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Problem 2P: How long would radio signals take to travel from Earth to Venus and back if Venus were at its...

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5. If the Magellan spacecraft transmitted radio signals down through the clouds of Venus and heard an echo from a certain spot 0.000133 seconds before the main echo, how high is the spot above the surface of Venus, in meters and kilometers?

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The time in which echo was heard is, $t = 0.000133 s$

The distance traveled by a radio signal in a given time t is given as,

$d = c t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1)$

Here, c is the speed of light, and t is the time.

The distance traveled by the echo of the radio signal reflected from the spot will be,

$t = 2 d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2)$

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