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posed mostly of carbon dioxide. At the surface, the atmospheric pressure
is equal to 90 terrestrial atmospheres: on Earth, you'd have to descend a
kilometer into the sea before you reached a pressure that high. The at-
mosphere of Venus contains layers of gaseous sulfuric acid several kilo-
meters deep. When it rains on Venus, it isn't raining rain you know: it's
raining acid. No human or other life could exist in such a hellish place for
a second.
We press on and come to Mercury, a small, rocky world, blasted by the
heat and radiation of the Sun. Its rotation has been so slowed down by its
proximity to the Sun that the planet makes only three full axial rotations in
the time it takes to revolve twice around the Sun. In other words, two of
Mercury's "years" is equal to three of its "days". Because of this prolonged
diurnal cycle, one side of Mercury becomes extremely hot while the other
is extremely cold. The difference between the daytime and nighttime sides
of Mercury is as much as 1,000°C. Of course such an environment cannot
support life.

Even Mars, the only other
planet in the solar system
to come close to resem-
bling the Earth physically,
is nothing but an arid, life-
less ball of rock.