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The Planet Venus is the second closest planet to the sun. It is located between our Earth and Mercury.
It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.
Venus is covered with thick clouds that create a greenhouse effect that makes
it very hot.
Venus has no moons.
Facts
about Planet Venus
* Diameter: 12,100
km. It is about 1040km smaller in diameter than Earth
* Temperature: Ranges from 900F+/-
50F (about 500°C +/- 32°C) at the surface
* Distance
from Earth: At its closest, Venus is 41,840,000 km away
* Atmosphere:
Carbon dioxide (95%), nitrogen, sulfuric acid, and traces
of other elements
* Surface: A rocky,
dusty, waterless expanse of mountains, canyons, and plains, with a
200-mile river of hardened lava
* Rotation of its axis: 243
Earth days (1 Venusian Day)
* Rotation around the Sun:
225 Earth days * Magnetic Field: No
Venus is the brightest object in the sky
besides our Sun and the Moon. It is
also known as the morning star because at sunrise it
appears in the east and and evening star as it appears at sunset when it is in the west. It
cannot be seen in the
middle of the night.
A Venusian day is 243 Earth days and is
longer than its year of 225 days. Oddly, Venus rotates from east
to west (retrograde - opposite to that of earth). If you were on
Venus, the Sun would rise in the west and set in the east.
Planet Venus
Spacecraft
Venera:
Soviet,
Magellan:
US Spacecraft
News:
Venus Express is the first European Space
Agency (ESA) mission to Planet Venus. It will be launched in
26 October 2005 by a Soyuz Fregat Rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft
design is derived from the Mars Express spacecraft.
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Did you know?
- Venus is often called Earth's twin because the two
planets are close in size, but that's the only
similarity.
The
next Transit
of Venus will occur on June 6th, 2012.
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Books
Atlas
of Venus by Peter Cattermole (Author),
Patrick Moore (Author)
From Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
Venus II:
Geology, Geophysics, Atmosphere, and Solar Wind Environment (Space
Science Series) by D. M. Hunten
From Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
June 8,
2004--Venus in Transit by Eli Maor
From Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
Video
Venus: Second Planet (1994)
From Amazon.com
Planet Venus
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