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- Covered with dense clouds.
- Very strong greenhouse effect keeps surface temperature very high.
- Difficult to see any surface markings from earth.
- Observed to go through phases like the moon.
- Observed by radar to rotate once in 243 days.
- Atmosphere is probably composed of nitrogen and carbon
dioxide.
- Has no magnetic field, indicating perhaps a different
internal structure.
2001-09-04