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VENUS
The space is insane. It's full of clearly warm stars, black holes with no blood, supernovae.
The craziest thing on this planet is: on Venus, it snows metal.
At the top of the Venus Mountains, underneath the thick clouds, there is a layer of snow.
But because it is so hot on Venus, snow as we know it cannot exist.
In contrast, the snowy mountains are covered with two types of metal: galena and bismuthinite.
As we now recognize, snow on Venus' ground is very likely more comparable to frost.
On Venus' lower plains, temperatures reach 480°C (894°F).
This is suitably hot as reflective pyrite minerals on the ground of the planet is vaporized, entering the ecosystem as a kind of metal mist, leaving only dark volcanic rocks like basalt in the Venusian lowlands.
At higher altitudes, this fog condenses, forming shining steel frost on the mountain tops.
The planet Venus has an inhospitable environment in which volcanoes release superheated gases into the atmosphere.
Sulphur and lead are gases emitted from Venus' volcanoes.
They remain in the vapor phase until they are sufficiently high in the atmosphere to condense.
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