What are some interesting facts about Venus?

Answer 1

Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

1) Venus is very hot. Its surface temperature averages over 450 degrees Celsius.

2) Its atmospheric pressure is enormous.

3) It "rains" sulfuric acid.

4) Venus rotates slowest of all planets in the Solar System. It takes about 243 Earth days to rotate. It rotates "backwards" compared with most planets.
Some facts and explanations about Venus:

• Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and usually the closest planet to Earth
• Venus is the planet with the hottest average surface temperature. It has a nearly uniform planet-wide surface temperature of about 460°C (860°F).
• Venus has the greenhouse effect so heat can come in but not out. Venus is always dry and windy, and it is always scorchingly hot.
• Venus is very close in size to the Earth, 95% of the Earth's radius
• A day on Venus is longer than a year on earth, because it spins so slowly
• Venus spins clockwise (meaning that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east)
• After the Sun and the Moon, Venus is the brightest thing in the sky
• Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.
• Venus has the most circular orbit of all the planets in our solar system.
• Venus There are more volcanoes on Venus than any other planet in the solar system, because it lacks the plate tectonics that regularly change Earth's surface features.
• There is no known life on Venus
• Venus has a thick atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide, about 3% nitrogen, and some sulfuric acid clouds
• There is no liquid water on the surface

The brightest of all planets, Venus, is also known as the Morning Star and the Evening Star. This planet is about the same size as Earth but is covered with impenetrable clouds of carbon dioxide and sulfur compounds.This planet is about the same size as Earth but is covered with impenetrable clouds of carbon dioxide and sulfur compounds. Radar mapping of the planet shows lots of craters and that 90% of the landforms are volcanic. Venus spins slowly retrograde (backwards west to east) in 243 days and takes about 225 days to orbit the sun. This makes the solar day last about 115 days. While it is bright there, the Sun is never visible from the surface. The "greenhouse effect" of the atmosphere traps and distributes the heat, so that the whole planet has a surface temperature of 450° to 464° C.

The pressure at the surface is more than 90 times the sea-level atmospheric pressure of earth.

• Venus has a nearly uniform planet-wide surface temperature of about 460°C (860°F)
• There are more volcanoes on Venus than any other planet in the solar system, because it lacks the plate tectonics that regularly change Earth's surface features.
• Venus is an inner planet, which means it is closer to the Sun than Earth.
  
• Venus is always dry and windy, and it is always scorching hot.
  
• There is no known life on Venus
• Venus has a thick atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide, about 3% nitrogen, and some sulfuric clouds of acid.
• There is no liquid water on the surface
• Venus rotates clockwise (east-to-west) in its plane, and so slowly that a day on Venus is longer than its year

Which means that a "school day" on Venus would last almost three months!

Answer 2

• Venus is often referred to as Earth's "sister planet" because of its similar size and composition.
• It has a thick atmosphere composed mainly of carbon dioxide, with clouds of sulfuric acid that create a strong greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet in our solar system.
• Venus rotates on its axis very slowly and in the opposite direction to most other planets, causing the sun to rise in the west and set in the east.