About this expedition
What is it like on the surface of Venus?
Stand on an imagined volcanic plain on Venus — the hottest planet in the Solar System — in first person. You walk in Venus gravity, 8.87 m/s² or about 90% of Earth’s, beneath a heavy orange sky, past a lava channel, a pancake dome and fractured basalt slabs like those photographed by the Soviet Venera landers.
Venus is almost Earth’s twin in size but nothing like it at the surface. Its carbon-dioxide atmosphere is so dense that surface pressure is about 92 times Earth’s — similar to being nearly a kilometre under the ocean — and a runaway greenhouse effect keeps the ground near 465 °C, hot enough to melt lead. Sulfuric-acid clouds hide the Sun completely, so daylight is a dim, directionless glow.
Quick facts
- Surface gravity
- 8.87 m/s² — about 90% of Earth’s
- Surface temperature
- About 465 °C, day and night
- Surface pressure
- About 92 times Earth’s
- Atmosphere
- About 96.5% CO₂, with sulfuric-acid clouds
- Rotation
- 243 Earth days per turn — and it spins backwards
- Longest surface mission
- Venera 13, 127 minutes (1982)
Five discoveries to find
- A floor of broken slabs — fractured volcanic plates like those in Venera photographs.
- Basalt in orange light — a rotatable rock specimen, grey under an amber sky.
- A river that was lava — a winding channel carved by lava, not water.
- A visitor that lasted 127 minutes — an artistic tribute to the Venera 13 lander.
- A dome of thick lava — a “pancake dome” formed by sticky, slow-moving lava.
How to explore
Press Step onto Venus, then walk with W A S D or the arrow keys, hold Shift to move faster, press Space to jump and drag to look around. On phones and tablets a touch pad appears. Press G to compare the local gravity with Earth’s, P for photo mode, and E to record a discovery in your journal — progress is saved on your own device.
Science and artistic reconstruction
The orange light, slab-like basalt and landforms are inspired by Venera surface photographs and by NASA’s Magellan radar maps (1990–1994); a real NASA 3D model of Magellan circles overhead. The lander is an artistic replica, and the terrain is procedurally generated art, not survey data.
Keep exploring
关于本次探索
站在金星表面是什么感觉？
在一片虚构的火山平原上以第一人称行走。你将在金星重力下行动——8.87 m/s²，约为地球的 90%——在沉重的橙色天空下，经过熔岩通道、薄饼状穹丘，以及苏联金星号着陆器拍摄过的碎裂玄武岩板块。
金星的大小与地球相近，但地表环境完全不同。约 92 倍于地球的二氧化碳大气层形成失控温室效应，让地表常年保持约 465 °C，高到足以熔化铅。硫酸云层完全遮住太阳，白天只剩一片昏暗、没有方向感的橙色光。
快速数据
- 表面重力
- 8.87 m/s²，约为地球的 90%
- 表面温度
- 约 465 °C，昼夜相同
- 表面气压
- 约为地球的 92 倍
- 大气
- 约 96.5% 二氧化碳，并有硫酸云
- 自转
- 243 个地球日，且自东向西逆向旋转
- 最长的地表任务
- 金星 13 号，127 分钟（1982 年）
五个发现
- 碎裂的板块 — 与金星号照片中相似的碎裂火山岩板。
- 橙光下的玄武岩 — 可旋转查看的标本，灰色岩石在琥珀色天光下显得发黄。
- 曾经是熔岩的河流 — 由熔岩而非水冲刷出的蜿蜒沟槽。
- 活了 127 分钟的访客 — 对金星 13 号着陆器的艺术致敬。
- 厚熔岩的穹丘 — 由黏稠熔岩堆积形成的“薄饼穹丘”。
如何探索
点击“踏上金星”，然后用 W A S D 或方向键行走，按住 Shift 加速，按空格键跳跃，拖动鼠标环顾四周。手机和平板上会出现虚拟方向键。按 G 对比重力，按 P 进入拍照模式，按 E 记录发现。
科学与艺术重建
橙色光线、板状玄武岩和地貌参考了苏联金星号的地表照片，以及 NASA 麦哲伦号的雷达测绘（1990–1994）；头顶盘旋的轮廓是麦哲伦号三维模型。着陆器是艺术复原品，地形属于程序生成的艺术创作，并非测量数据。