Hello Venusian vagabonds, Trace here.
Venus, Venus burning bright the first star you'll see tonight.
In ancient times Venus was thought to be a wandering star because it's the third brightest object that we can see in the sky after the Sun and the Moon so bright that you can sometimes spot it even when the sun is up.
Hit the darkness at sunset and look southwest.
Venus is that bright yellow spot it's so bright because its dense clouds give it a high albedo it reflects 70 of the light that hits it from the Sun.
Venus is similar in size to earth but its atmosphere is highly toxic filled with carbon dioxide, sulfuric acid, and heat trapped by its greenhouse gases.
Even though Mercury is closer to the sun, Venus is actually hotter.
Maybe someday we'll use solar-powered airships to explore it but for now we'll have to keep looking up!