A runaway greenhouse oven hot enough to melt lead, crushed under 92 atmospheres.
Standing on Venus would feel like being 900 meters underwater. Because its thick carbon dioxide clouds trap nearly all heat, Venus is hotter than Mercury (464°C)—so hot that tin and lead pool as liquids on the ground.
Venus is the most unforgiving planetary surface in the solar system. The atmospheric pressure (92 bar) is equivalent to being 900 meters deep in Earth's ocean, which would crush a human instantly. Ground heat of 464°C would scorch you into ash, while clouds above rain concentrated sulfuric acid. Even titanium Soviet Venera landers were killed within two hours.
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Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect driven by a 96.5% carbon dioxide atmosphere, trapping solar radiation and sustaining a uniform global temperature of 464°C (867°F).
Rain on Venus consists of concentrated sulfuric acid. However, due to ground temperatures exceeding 460°C, the rain vaporizes thousands of meters above the surface in a process known as virga.
Soviet Venera landers survived between 23 and 127 minutes before being crushed by the 92-atmosphere pressure and destroyed by the heat.
The estimated average temperature on Venus is +464°C / +867.2°F.
A full day-night cycle on Venus lasts about 2802 Earth hours.
Venus is 38 – 261 million km from Earth.
Venus's atmospheric pressure is 92 bar (Equivalent to 900 meters underwater on Earth).
Crushingly dense carbon dioxide (96.5%) with thick clouds of concentrated sulfuric acid.
Slow creeping breezes on the ground (3 km/h), while upper cloud jet streams scream at 360 km/h.
Sulfuric acid rain that vaporizes in mid-air before ever touching the blistering ground.
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