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Venus
Earth’s twin in size, wrapped in sulphuric-acid clouds. The surface is hot enough to melt lead, and it spins backwards.
- Diameter
- 12,104 km
- Gravity
- 0.90 g
- Day
- 243 Earth days, backwards
- Year
- 225 Earth days
- Surface
- 464 °C, 92 bar
Can we live on Venus?
Air: CO₂ 96.5%, N₂ 3.5%. Not breathable: you’d need a suit and your own oxygen.
Gravity: 0.90 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 63 kg there.
Ground: Sulphuric acid clouds over volcanic plains; 92 times Earth’s air pressure.
Atmosphere
- CO₂ 96.5%
- N₂ 3.5%
- SO₂ <0.1%
Measured by NASA fact sheet