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    Venus is the second planet from the Sun and has no natural satellites. It has the densest atmosphere of the four terrestrial planets, consisting mostly of carbon dioxide. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system with an average surface temperature of 462 degrees Celsius. It may have had oceans in the past but they would have vaporized due to a runaway greenhouse effect caused by its dense carbon dioxide atmosphere, which also makes the surface invisible from space in visible light due to thick, reflective clouds.

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    Venus is the second planet from the Sun and has no natural satellites. It has the densest atmosphere of the four terrestrial planets, consisting mostly of carbon dioxide. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system with an average surface temperature of 462 degrees Celsius. It may have had oceans in the past but they would have vaporized due to a runaway greenhouse effect caused by its dense carbon dioxide atmosphere, which also makes the surface invisible from space in visible light due to thick, reflective clouds.

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    Venus is the second planet from the Sun and has no natural satellites. It has the densest atmosphere of the four terrestrial planets, consisting mostly of carbon dioxide. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system with an average surface temperature of 462 degrees Celsius. It may have had oceans in the past but they would have vaporized due to a runaway greenhouse effect caused by its dense carbon dioxide atmosphere, which also makes the surface invisible from space in visible light due to thick, reflective clouds.

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    Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days.

    [13] It has
    no natural satellite. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon,
    it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of 4.6,
    bright enough to cast shadows.[14] Because Venus is an inferior planet from Earth, it never
    appears to venture far from the Sun: its elongation reaches a maximum of 47.8.
    Venus is a terrestrial planet and is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" because of their
    similar size, mass, proximity to the Sun and bulk composition. It is radically different from
    Earth in other respects. It has the densest atmosphere of the four terrestrial planets,
    consisting of more than 96% carbon dioxide. The atmospheric pressure at the planet's
    surface is 92 times that of Earth's. With a mean surface temperature of 735 K (462 C;
    863 F), Venus is by far the hottest planet in the Solar System, even though Mercury is
    closer to the Sun. Venus has no carbon cycle that puts carbon into rock, nor does it seem to
    have any organic life to absorb carbon in biomass. Venus is shrouded by an opaque layer of
    highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid, preventing its surface from being seen from space
    in visible light. It may have had oceans in the past,[15][16] but these would have vaporized as
    the temperature rose due to a runaway greenhouse effect.[17] The water has most
    probably photodissociated, and, because of the lack of a planetary magnetic field, the free
    hydrogen has beenswept into interplanetary space by the solar wind.[18] Venus's surface is a
    dry desertscape interspersed with slab-like rocks and periodically refreshed by volcanism.

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