Venus' atmosphere height is incorrect (too low).

[Katniss218]

Current Venus atmosphere height of 145km doesn't match the results I've calculated. Should be ~333km

The threshold ('e') is set so that the iteration stops when the Earth's atmosphere reaches 144km, otherwise results won't be correct for RSS.

using System;

public class Program
{
public static void Atmo( double scaleHeight, double pressure, double e ){

	double cE = pressure;
	double currentHeight = 0;
	while( cE > e )
	{
		cE /= Math.E;
		currentHeight += scaleHeight;
	}
	
	Console.WriteLine( currentHeight );
}

public static void Main()
{
	Atmo( 8.5, 1, 0.0000001 ); // earth ScaleHeight = 8.5 (wikipedia), pressure = 1 atm
	Atmo( 15.9, 92, 0.0000001 ); // venus ScaleHeight = 15.9 (wikipedia), pressure = 92 atm

// value epsilon = 0.0000001 makes the threshold stop when the Earth's atmosphere reaches 144km - close enough for comparison.
}
}

outputs

144.5
333.9

[Katniss218]

Edit
333km value is probably incorrect too. Appears that ScaleHeight can change with altitude, and the value of 15.9 only applies to the lower parts of Venusian atmo.

[PhineasFreak]

A valid data point would be Venus Express: it did multiple aerobraking passes around 130 km so a 333 km atmosphere height would be too much for RSS. The current 145 km cutoff looks more sane.