Venus


 * "If you've ever been to Venus, you know exactly how it feels to get out of an oven. Actually, two ovens."
 * Seersak Sarka commenting about Venus

Venus is the second planet of the Sol System.

Structure and geography
Venus' surface is covered with at least 167 volcanoes which measure over 100 km (62 miles) across. The volcanoes, when they erupted, sent lots of carbon dioxide and sulfur into the Venusian atmosphere, creating a greenhouse effect so powerful, that Venus became the hottest planet in the Sol System. The temperature never changes. It always stays over 735 K (460 oC). Humanity managed to survive by creating the most powerful, heat-proof walls available.

In its early history, Venus probably got hit by a large asteroid, so powerful, that it actually altered its rotation, so that Venus rotates in 243 days, 19 days longer than its orbital period of 224 days.