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<title >The very hot surface of Venus makes life impossible</title>
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<tei-ms:orth><h1 align="center">Venus</h1></tei-ms:orth>
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<div align="center" title="The very hot surface of Venus makes life impossible"><img src="venus.jpg"></div>
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<p ><b class="first" >T</b>he second closest planet to the sun, Venus shines its
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bright glow as the morning star.</p>
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<p >Covered by layers of sweeping clouds that rise up to 60 km above the planet's
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surface, which contain droplets of sulfuric acid, only recently have infrared
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detectors been able to scan through the opaque view. Openings, however, show a
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view of a world underneath at Venus' north and south poles.</p>
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<p >The atmospheric pressure is only one tenth of that on <a href="earth.htm"> Earth</a> and a surface
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pressure of 96 bars. Clouded, Venus maintains a constant planetary surface
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temperature of 459 degrees Celcius, independent of day or night. Filtering the
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sun's light energy, Venus' clouds promote a continual deep freeze throughout the
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planet.</p>
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<p >Ninety-seven percent of Venus' atmosphere is composed of carbon dioxide,
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compared <a href="earth.htm"> Earth's</a> seventy-eight percent nitrogen composition. Continuing, since
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Venus is closer to the Sun it experienced a runaway green-house effect
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that caused the primitive oceans to evaporate into the clouds.</p>
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