What state is the surface of Venus?

Answer 1

Beneath the clouds that hide Venus from view, it is a fairly barren and unpleasant place. There are no bodies of water, no vegetation, no life.

The thick atmosphere is almost entirely carbon dioxide, at a crushing pressure 93 times as at sea level on Earth. The average temperature is 460°C (860° F, hot enough to melt lead) planet-wide and even at night, because this heat is carried around the planet. There is no oxygen and no liquid water, and only the smallest trace of water vapor.

Venus's surface is a dry, reddish, rocky desert with many slab-like rocks, and the lava plains are periodically refreshed by volcanism. Although there are innumerable volcanic landforms on the planet, only a small number of volcanoes are currently active. They tend to be short, no more than 1.5 kilometers (5000 feet) high, and generally wider than volcanoes found on Earth.

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Answer 2

We know little enough about the surface of Venus. One Soviet space probe landed there, and survived the intense heat and pressure for about an hour. Satellites have radar-mapped the terrain. But the heavy thick atmosphere makes it impossible to see the surface from orbit.