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Tour the Solar SystemModule 3Mercury and Venus
Module 3 / Lesson 8 of 3030 min
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Why is Venus hotter than Mercury?

How do cloud-top images, radar echoes, descent probes, and infrared physics reveal the hottest planetary surface in the Solar System?

Pass through Venus's bright cloud veil and connect four different observations to its hidden terrain, crushing atmosphere, and extreme greenhouse warming.

Artistic scientific reconstruction of Venus with golden clouds transitioning into a radar-like reveal of dark volcanic terrain.
Artistic scientific reconstruction: the cloud veil and restrained radar overlay introduce two different ways of seeing Venus. It is not an official observation or natural-colour surface view.

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