Eli5: If Mercury is closest to the sun, why is Venus hotter?
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venus has a very dense atmosphere that resulted in a seriously enchanhced greenhouse effect that traps almost all of the energy it receives from the Sun.
Unlike with Mercury that due to basically not having an atmosphere+ being tidally locked ot the sun makes it so the side facing it gets very hot but the side away from it loses all of this energy.
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