Why is Venus warmer than other planets?
Well firstly, Venus is the second closest planet to the sun meaning the heat will be more intense. Secondly, even though mercury is actually closer to the Sun, Venus’s surface temperature is actually hotter than Mercury’s. This is because Venus has a thick atmosphere composed of sulphuric acid clouds (you get serious acid rain there!) and Carbon dioxide, which leads to an extreme Greenhouse heating effect. The atmosphere lets in the smaller wavelengths such as ultraviolet, but as they lose energy and bounce of venus, the wavelength become longer, turning into infrared radiation (heat), thus having an extreme heating effect, making Venus the hottest planet in our solar system, despite not being the closest to the sun.
