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Venus Is Shaped By Volcanoes

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Venus choked in smog, a crushing atmosphere of carbon dioxide. Venus, shaped by volcanoes. Venus, where day and night it’s always 480 degrees Celsius yet no Sun ever penetrates these poisonous skies. Venus is a puzzle, it rotates just once in 243 days, yet clouds race around the planet in four. And, with a diameter of more than 12.000 kilometres. Venus is almost the size of Earth, but few twins are so different. Once, Venus may have been like Earth with oceans, continents and clear blue skies.

From Earth, Venus is by far the brightest planet in the night sky and, like its elusive companion Mercury best observed immediately after sunset and just before dawn. Neither climbs far above the horizon. It’s the effect of their position between the

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