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The planet Venus is _NEVER_ seen in the full phase, because it never gets anywhere near the Earth. Venus is in a closer orbit to the Sun than the Earth is, so when Venus is closest to the Earth, it's pretty close to being between the Earth and the Sun. In fact, Venus passes directly between the Earth and the Sun twice per century, most recently in 2004. We call this a "transit of Venus".

So we only see Venus in its crescent phases.

Think about it . . . In order to see the complete illuminated side of Venus,

we'd have to be looking at it through the sun.

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