There is indirect supporting evidence: Volcanic gases linger in Venus’s skies, and the way that parts of the planet glow suggests they were painted over by lava in the recent geologic past ...

Venus is one of the weirdest planets in the solar system. We explore the scorching planet in more detail with 20 interesting facts about Venus.

Yet a day on Venus (one full rotation of the planet) lasts 243 Earth days. When an atmosphere spins faster than the planet’s surface, astronomers call the phenomenon super-rotation.