indeed Joe,
a tropical Australian summer heatwave is frigid in comparison
- until we let our greenhouse gases get into a positive feedback loop.
if i was off to Venus i'd be a bit relieved if my craft missed and had to orbit the sun for a coupla years to get back to Venus
also there is a great article in the current Australian S&T explaining Juno's early findings of Jupiter's upper atmosphere. the bands that fascinate us are relatively very thin n superficial.
L