Venus’s River of Lava Longer Than The Nile
Tales from our very own hell world
Venus shares a lot of similarities to Earth. It is nearby, roughly the same size and shape, and made up of the same atomic guts. That is largely where the similarities end. While Earth is a lush life bearing world, Venus is a hellscape.
The surface of Venus is dotted with thousands of volcanoes — more than any other body in the solar system — and some scientists believe that many are still active. That is hard to prove because Venus is enshrouded with a thick cloak of toxic gas that is dangerous to breathe and makes the surface pressure on Venus untenable. The surface pressure is roughly 90x that of Earth’s sea level.
Venus is so toxic and so unbearable that even specially designed probes do not last long. Anything that falls to the surface is crushed, eroded, or burned away. All of this adds up to a place that sounds more at home in Dante’s Inferno than it does in our textbooks yet there it is.
Adding to the mystique of horrible danger that the surface of Venus holds is the longest channel in the solar system.
