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Venus is simply too hot to support any sort of life, with surface temperatures exceeding 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Mercury barely has an atmosphere to support life and shield it from harmful radiation and regulate temperature. Mercury is much like the moon, only it gets much hotter during the day.

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Actually, we don't know if there is or isn't some form of life on Venus. While life on Mercury is highly unlikely, there are environments on Earth that closely mirror the surface of Venus where life thrives here. Consider what has been learned about the immediate vicinty of thermal vents along the mid-Atlantic ridge in the past ten years.

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