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wonderful. where at in the us is still daylight?

On Earth, light rays travel in mostly straight lines. However, on Venus, the atmospheric pressure is 92 times greater than on Earth, and the density of the air changes significantly with altitude, especially in the lowest meter above the ground. This creates a powerful refractive effect, bending light rays downward.

Instead of seeing a distant, sharp horizon, the light from far-off objects is bent so much that it makes the surface appear to curve upward, giving the illusion of a horizon that is much closer than it would be in a vacuum. This is a very different effect from Rayleigh scattering, which explains why the sky is hazy and reddish-orange. The close-appearing horizon is a result of atmospheric refraction, not just the scattering of light.

there may be microbial life roughly 30 miles above the surface of venus