Transmitted data for 23 minutes . Temperature was measured at 890 degrees F. Photos were taken on subsequent missions. Clouds are made of sulfuric acid droplets, sulfur particles, and other sulfur compounds. Sulfuric acid rain evaporates before reaching the planet's surface. This is called the Greenhouse Effect Probably no water condensation ever to form oceans.
Corona structures are present.
Later cooled and collapsed to form wrinkled calderas with radial fractures. No deep trenches. Aphrodite Terra is plateau-like with linear troughs. Ishtar Terra is the highest area on the planet, with mountains up to about 11 km high. Its height is comparable to Mt. Everest on Earth, which is 12 km above Earth's mean radius.