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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
ET Science Desk

Venus has a deadly heat blanket that Mercury never had. Why the planet farther from the Sun became the hottest world in our solar system

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. So why isn’t it the hottest world in our solar system?

The answer lies in a strange planetary paradox: the planet that receives the most direct sunlight is not the one that holds on to heat the best.

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