Atmosphere of Venus The densest part of the atmosphere, the troposphere, begins at the surface and extends upwards to 65 km. At the furnace-like surface the winds are slow, but at the top of the troposphere the temperature and pressure reaches Earth-like levels and clouds pick up speed to 100 m/s. The atmospheric pressure at the surface of Venus is about 92 times that of the Earth, similar to the pressure found below the surface of the ocean. The atmosphere has a mass of 4.8 kg, about 93 times the mass of the Earth's total atmosphere. The density of the air at the
The Way We Live Now (short story) first appeared, "The Way We Live Now" remains a signature work in the literature of the epidemic. Sontag borrowed her title from an 1875 novel by British writer Anthony Trollope called "The Way We Live Now". The Way We Live Now (short story) "The Way We Live Now" is a short story by Susan Sontag which was published to great acclaim on November 24, 1986 in "The New Yorker". The story describes the beginnings of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, as the disease began to claim members of the New York cultural elite. The story is told entirely