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Venus is the second planet in the Sol System, which in Spore can be found as an easter egg. It is a boiling planet, with orange, level terrain and red oceans.

Surface features

Venus is depicted with large oceans and smooth terrain features. This makes the view from space loosely resemble its real-life opaque and cloudy atmosphere, which isn't possible to recreate in Spore.

While the layout of the continents is always the same, it's randomly rotated when the galaxy is generated.

Trivia

• In reality, Venus has no bodies of liquid water on its surface, nor could it support them, so depicting it as a boiling planet is completely inaccurate. This is because its surface temperature (464 ºC or 867 °F)^[1] is much higher than the boiling point of water at Venus's air pressure of 92 atmospheres (306 ºC or 582 ºF).^[2] Still, this is not warm enough to melt rock, so a lava planet would be no more accurate. Venus would be most realistically represented as an arid planet in Spore.
• In reality, the highest mountains on Venus are coated with an unknown, ice-like substance —most likely tellurium— as seen in radio pictures.^[3] This substance is absent in the game.
• Unlike Earth or Mars, Venus' terrain isn't modeled based on real life, as many prominent features such as Aphrodite/Isthar Terra or the Maxwell Montes are missing.

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