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Today, Venus has the hottest surface in our solar system, reaching constant temperatures of about 460 °C. This extreme heat is enough to melt lead and turns any exploration attempt into an almost impossible challenge because of the pressure spacecraft must withstand.
The cause of this hellish environment is a dense atmosphere composed mainly of carbon dioxide, about 96%. This gas acts like an impenetrable thermal blanket, trapping heat from the Sun so efficiently that the planet never manages to cool down.
This phenomenon is known as a runaway greenhouse effect, where rising…
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