Venus explained: our neighbouring planet

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe claim is that Venus is Earth's twin. NASA says it is close in size, about seventy-five hundred miles across against Earth's seventy-nine hundred.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA twin! I love that for us. We could share clothes and a podcast.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe surface is eight hundred seventy-two degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to melt lead, and the pressure is ninety-three times Earth's at sea level.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOkay, but thirty miles up, it's eighty-six to a hundred fifty-eight degrees, with pressure like ours. NASA says that could hold microbes.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMicrobes.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOur twin might have tenants. And dark streaks in the clouds that scientists still can't explain, though NASA calls life a much less likely answer. NASA says these findings do not provide compelling evidence of life in Venus’ clouds.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWinds there reach two hundred twenty-four miles an hour. I rate the twin claim Half Bonkers, because the family resemblance stops at the front door.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's a lot of air freshener we'd need to borrow.