What planet, covered by a thick layer of clouds, looks smooth and featureless through a telescope?
mars
thermoelectric , celsius , kelvin
uranus
venus
Viewed through a telescope, Venus looks smooth and featureless. The planet is covered by a thick layer of clouds. You can see the clouds in pictures of Venus, such as Figure below . We make maps of the surface using radar, because the thick clouds won’t allow us to take photographs of the surface of Venus.