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Planet

Venus

The hottest planet in the Solar System

Description

Venus is wrapped in sulfuric acid clouds and a carbon dioxide atmosphere so dense that surface pressure is about 90 times Earth's. The greenhouse effect heats the surface to about 464 °C, hotter than Mercury.

Did you know?

Venus spins the opposite way to most planets: there, the Sun rises in the west.