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This image of the Venus southern hemisphere illustrates the terminator – the transitional region between the dayside and nightside of the planet .Today, our sister planet Venus resembles an environment as close to hell as one can imagine. Surface temperatures on the amber world soar to 450 degrees Celsius , while about 96% of the planet's crushing atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide.
The atmosphere on Venus houses two strong currents. The lower of the two sits below 70 kilometers in altitude, where the equivalent of hurricane-force winds on Earth blow against the direction of Venus' rotation. The higher current sits above 120 kilometers in altitude with winds that flow in the direction of the planet's rotation. the suninto atomic oxygen and other molecules.
The presence of the highly reactive oxygen on Venus, therefore, shouldn't pose too much of a corrosive threat to any future satellites that get sent there.
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