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Atmospheric Mass of Venus. The atmospheric pressure on Venus is 90 bars. What is the total mass of Venus’s atmosphere? You may use the fact that 1 bar is the pressure exerted by 10,000 kilograms pushing down on a square meter in Earth’s gravity, and assume that Venus’s gravity is essentially the same as Earth’s.

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