Why Venus Spins the Wrong Way | Scientific American
Image: NASA| Scientific American
Space can be hell, especially for delicate hardware.| ScienceAlert
The planet Venus is scorching hot beneath its suffocatingly thick atmosphere, much of its surface shaped by the surges and flows of volcanic activity.| ScienceAlert
Mercury is the innermost planet of the Solar System, taking just 88 Earth days to complete and orbit around the Sun, at an average distance of around 58 million kilometres. At this close proximity, standing on the planet's surface the Sun would appear three times larger than it does from Earth.| ScienceAlert
Venus, the Evening Star, may gleam prettily in our night sky, but up close it's about as inhospitable as a rocky planet can be, with sulphuric acid rains, a suffocating CO2 atmosphere, and a surface atmospheric pressure up to 100 times greater than Earth's.| ScienceAlert
New research has revealed a previously unknown source of magnetism deep within our planet's stupidly hot, squishy layers.| ScienceAlert
A lack of new missions keeps scientists guessing on what shaped the planet’s surface.| The Planetary Society
Mars is the fourth planet that orbits the Sun in our Solar System.| ScienceAlert
