The 7 Weirdest Things About Venus, Hell Planet
The transit of Venus (right) across the sun’s face in 2012, as seen in false color by the SDO satellite.Photo: SDO/NASA (Getty Images)It’s been 30 years since a NASA spacecraft went to Venus, a yellowish planet 67 million miles from the Sun and 141 million miles from us. Venus is often thought of as a sibling planet to Earth, both being rocky worlds close enough to the Sun to bask in its heat. And yet, at some point in their histories, the two worlds diverged in an extreme way.In 2021, NASA and the European Space Agency…