Our knowledge concerning the surface of Venus comes from a limited amount of information obtained by the series of Russian Venera landers, and primarily from extensive radar imaging of the planet. The radar imaging of the planet has been performed both from Earth-based facilities and from space probes. The most extensive radar imaging was obtained from the Magellan orbiter in a 4-year period in the early 1990s. As a consequence, we now have a detailed radar picture of the surface of Venus. The adjacent animation shows the topography of the surface as determined using the Magellan synthetic aperture radar (black areas are regions not examined by Magellan). An MPEG movie (303 kB) of this animation is also available.
Overview of SurfaceThe surface of Venus is rather smooth in many places, though not nearly as smooth as originally expected . However, we find evidence for many of the same geological features found on Earth: canyons, volcanoes, lava flows, rift valleys, mountains, craters, and plains. There is substantial evidence for local tectonic activity but the surface appears to be a single crustal plate, with little evidence for large-scale horizontal motion of crustal plates as found on the Earth. Why the two planets differ in this aspect of their geology even though we believe them to have similar interiors is not well understood. The usual explanation is that Venus is a little behind the Earth in geological timescale, and its tectonic activity is just getting started.Much of the surface of Venus appears to be rather young. The global data set from radar imaging reveals a number of craters consistent with an average Venus surface age of 300 million to 500 million years.
There are two "continents", which are large regions several kilometers above the average elevation. These are called Istar Terra and Aphrodite Terra. They can be seen in the preceding animation as the large green, yellow, and red regions indicating higher elevation near the equator (Aphrodite Terra) and near the top (Ishtar Terra).
Hemispheric ViewsThe following images show 5 hemispheric views of the surface, again as determined primarily from the Magellan mission.The Earth has only about 1.05 times the surface area of Venus, one reason Venus is our twin planet. Venus-12,104 km Earth-12,756 km
The surface of planet Venus is a stark reddish-brown colour. This is due to the volcanic rocks that dominate its surface.Due to the light spectrum that humans see with, the planet looks yellowy-white when we look at Venus from afar. The yellow tint that we see from afar is due to clouds of sulphur dioxide on the planet and is not the actual surface. So Venus isn't actually yellowy-white, it is stark reddish-brown.
A lot. Venus' atmosphere is 80 times thicker than ours, and over 90% of it is CO2. That's way more carbon dioxide than we have. Scientists think a runaway greenhouse effect in Venus' distant past is responsible for this, which forces us to scrutinize our own abuse of carbon dioxide! The surface of Venus is a ridiculous 800 degrees Celsius as a result of that greenhouse effect (and of course, Venus' proximity to the sun.)
Because of it's thick CO2 atmosphere and slow rotation, Venus maintains an average temperature of around 460 °C (860 °F) whether it is "day" or "night". :)
To me it looks like a magnified Coquille Saint Jaques. (pilgrim scallop) Simple Answer: scallop
The surface of Venus is relatively smooth as it is believed that volcanic action has resurfaced the planet. The surface is composed of rock but we are uncertain exactly what type of rock. There is some evidence that there may be granite on Venus.
The "topography" of Venus is the three dimensional shape of the surface of Venus.
The atmosphere on the surface of Venus is cloudy.
Radar has been used to map the surface of Venus
Venus has a solid rocky surface.
Venus has craters on it's surface!
Venus surface is a dry desertscape with many slab-like rocks
The surface area of the planet Venus is 4.60×108 km2.
the surface feature of Venus are craters, meteorites and mostly acid water
Venus has the highest surface temperature of all the planets.
Yes, Go on the internet, go to google and type in "VENUS SUTRFACE" Go toimmages and their are some.Mr.Seidschlag
Venus has a rocky surface,Earth some what does.