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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
You don't want to go to Venus. The surface temp is so hot lead is molten, and the atmospher is poisonous to boot. Only the Russians have landed a probe and it only lasted a few seconds before it was cooked..
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Venus is closer than Mars (c. 25m miles vs c. 35m miles at closest).
But Due to the orbit shape, etc, Mars is closer more often than Venus.