Fifty kilometres above Venus, pressure and temperature become surprisingly Earth-like and ordinary breathable air could keep a habitat afloat, but living there would mean building a sealed world inside sulphuric-acid clouds
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- Stand on Venus and the pressure is like balancing a small car on your thumbnail — about 1,350 pounds per square inch. Go up fifty kilometres, though, and pressure and temperature enter an Earth-like range Space Daily · 13d ago broke it first
- Standing on Venus Would Be Like Being 3,000 Feet Underwater at 867°F. Soviet Landers Survived Between 32 and 127 Minutes. 19FortyFive · 13d ago
- The surface of Venus is more than 200°C hotter than a home oven — and that's before the pressure gets you. Rise fifty kilometres into the clouds, and both the heat and the crush ease off to something Earth-familiar ScienceBlog.com · 13d ago
- Mercury sits closest to the Sun, but Venus reaches 867°F: Here's what makes it the hottest planet The Times of India · 13d ago
- Fifty kilometres above Venus, pressure and temperature become surprisingly Earth-like and ordinary breathable air could keep a habitat afloat, but living there would mean building a sealed world inside sulphuric-acid clouds Space Daily · 13d ago broke it first
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