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billybobsky
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2006-04-11, 12:34

Earth's atmosphere is about 100 km thick...

It isn't an easy calculation but given that Venus is about the same size as earth, has an atmosphere that is composed mostly of CO2, which is approximately 1.5 times as dense as nitrogen, and that it is 90 times as massive -- I would guess that its atmosphere is anywhere between 30 and 60 times as thick as earths...
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