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About 50 kilometres above Venus’ surface, the crushing heat and pressure below give way to temperatures and air pressure surprisingly close to Earth’s, a region NASA has described as the most Earth-surface-like environment in the solar system — at least by those measures, more forgiving than the surface of Mars.

Objectivity score: 54
Venus is usually introduced as the planet that makes Mars look gentle. Its surface is hot enough to melt lead, its pressure is comparable to being nearly a kilometre under Earth’s ocean, and its clouds are chemically hostile. Yet about 50 kilometres above that surface, the numbers change in a way that is still easy to miss. NASA’s Venus facts page says that about 30 miles up, or roughly 50 kilomet...