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Venus is a hellish environment. With a bone-dry, reddish-brown surface marred by thousands of volcanoes and covered in ancient lava flows, it’s not a place you want to spend your time. And sure, the planet has occasional rain showers, but they sprinkle sulfuric acid, not water, which likely taints the air with the smell of rotten eggs. At the surface, temperatures rise to over 850 degrees Fahrenheit (450 Celsius; hot enough to melt lead), and the pressure hovers around 90 times that of Earth.
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