## Venus’ mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust A physical model show that iron dust and sulfuric acid create the right properties. Venus is shrouded in a veil of mystery. The yellowish “lower haze” at the bottom of its atmosphere was discovered by the Venera and Pioneer Venus probes in the 1970s. These spacecraft were some of the first to successfully send images of the planet back to Earth, but the haze they saw went unexplained for decades. Now the mystery Venus was keeping has been unveiled. What nobody knew then was that the haze is an accumulation of particles from meteorites.…