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Terrifying Solar System spots that are deadlier than any place on Earth

Terrifying Solar System spots that are deadlier than any place on Earth
Source: interestingengineering
Author: @IntEngineering
Published: 11/13/2025

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The article highlights some of the most hazardous locations in the Solar System, emphasizing environments far deadlier than any on Earth. Mercury’s Terminator Line presents extreme temperature contrasts, from scorching 430°C on the sunlit side to frigid –180°C on the dark side, combined with near-vacuum and intense solar radiation. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and Neptune’s Great Dark Spot are enormous, violent storms with wind speeds up to 432 km/h and 2,100 km/h respectively, posing lethal atmospheric conditions. Venus’s Aphrodite Terra is a vast highland region with crushing pressures about 90 times Earth’s, surface temperatures around 460°C, and a corrosive atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, compounded by rugged terrain. Further dangers include Enceladus’s south pole “tiger stripes,” fissures emitting jets of water vapor and organic compounds, creating a geologically unstable and cryogenic environment with icy plumes and low gravity. Saturn’s Encke Gap

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