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Venus was once formed by gravity pulling swirling gas and dust together about 4.5 billion years ago, when our solar system came into being.
Venus was once formed by gravity pulling swirling gas and dust together about 4.5 billion years ago, when our solar system came into being.
Venus is covered in thick yellowish clouds made up of mostly sulfuric acid. Venus's atmosphere is thick and toxic, filled with carbon dioxide.
Venus is covered in thick yellowish clouds made up of mostly sulfuric acid. Venus's atmosphere is thick and toxic, filled with carbon dioxide.
The chemical composition of Venus is 96 percent carbon dioxide, 3.5 percent nitrogen, and less than 1 percent of carbon monoxide, argon, sulfur dioxide, and water vapor.
The chemical composition of Venus is 96 percent carbon dioxide, 3.5 percent nitrogen, and less than 1 percent of carbon monoxide, argon, sulfur dioxide, and water vapor.
Venus's atmosphere includes small amounts of nitrogen and sulfuric acid clouds.
Venus's atmosphere includes small amounts of nitrogen and sulfuric acid clouds.
Venus’s atmosphere and clouds trap small amounts of energy from the Sun that reaches the planet as well as the heat the Venus releases itself. This creates a greenhouse effect that makes Venus's surface and lower atmosphere one of the hottest places in our solar system!!!
Venus’s atmosphere and clouds trap small amounts of energy from the Sun that reaches the planet as well as the heat the Venus releases itself. This creates a greenhouse effect that makes Venus's surface and lower atmosphere one of the hottest places in our solar system!!!
Temperature on Venus can reach about 900 degrees Fahrenheit.
Temperature on Venus can reach about 900 degrees Fahrenheit.
This is hot enough to melt lead!!!
This is hot enough to melt lead!!!
Venus's surface consists of volcanoes, mountains, and deep canyons.
Venus's surface consists of volcanoes, mountains, and deep canyons.
This puff of smoke is indeed a mass of swirling gas and cloud at Venus's south pole.
This puff of smoke is indeed a mass of swirling gas and cloud at Venus's south pole.
Venus's wind speeds can reach around 450 miles per hour!
Venus's wind speeds can reach around 450 miles per hour!
Venus's vast spinning vortices are surrounded by Venus's atmosphere of thick clouds of sulphuric acid.
Venus's vast spinning vortices are surrounded by Venus's atmosphere of thick clouds of sulphuric acid.
Air pressure on Venus is more than 90 times the air pressure on Earth. This crushing air pressure would be as if you were a mile below the sea on Earth.
Air pressure on Venus is more than 90 times the air pressure on Earth. This crushing air pressure would be as if you were a mile below the sea on Earth.
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