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Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, because the intense clouds on Venus keep in the heat that Venus receives from the Sun and it's called the "greenhouse gas effect". Venus is much hotter than Mercury, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun than Venus. Mercury has no atmosphere, so there is no "greenhouse gas effect" on that planet.

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