Planet Venus

Mercury and Venus: hot Earth: you know that! The rest of them: cold

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I don't understand that answer . . . In any event, Venus is extremely hot due to the thick cloud cover. Venus's surface temperature is close to 860 degrees, F. Earth's temperature runs from about -75 degrees to + 140 degrees, F. Mar's temperature runs between -200 degrees, F and 80 degrees, F., and Mercury's surface temperature runs from 840 degrees, F and -290 degrees,

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The rest of the planets, all gas giants, are very cold on their surface, but may be quite warm nearer their centers due to the immense pressure there.

Ariel and Umbriel are two of the moons of Uranus. They were discovered around the same time in 1851 by William Lassell.

Mercury - Messsenger of the Gods aka Hermes in Greek Mythology

Venus - Roman Goddess of Love aka Aphrodite in Greek Mythology

Earth - Gaia is also known as Mother Earth

Mars - Roman God of War aka. Ares in Greek Mythology

Jupiter - Roman 'King' of the gods, aka Zeus in Greek Mythology

Saturn - Roman God of Agriculture, identified with greek god Cronus, father of the Gods

Uranus - also known as Ouranos was known as the Sky father and also fathered the Titans

Neptune - Roman God of the Sea, greek counterpart Posedion

Pluto - God of the Underworld, identified with Greek Hades

Venus is extremely hot and dry, so you would probably burn up once you entered the atmosphere (a probe could only stay on the surface two hours taking pictures before it disintigrated). Venus' terrain is rocky and sandy, plus there are volcanoes, the same type as the ones in Hawaii.

Venus clouds move at high speeds, with wind speeds reaching up to 220 mph (360 km/h) at the cloud tops. These fast-moving clouds are composed of sulfuric acid droplets and are carried by the planet's super-rotating atmosphere, where it completes a full rotation in about 4 Earth days.

Yes. It is called the Morning Star when it looks like a bright star in the morning, and the Evening Star when it looks like a bright star at night. It only appears shortly after sunset or shortly before sunrise.

If you use a telescope, you can see the planet, but not any detail. The thick clouds around the planet hide the surface from view.

Because Venus rotates very slowly, with one rotation taking longer than one orbit. It takes it 224 Earth days to orbit the sun but 243 Earth days to fully rotate.

Yes, but the "solar day" is only 117 Earth days,of course.

yes it is said if you make a wish on the planet venus it will come true

A cleft of Venus refers to the vertical groove or indentation located above the female pubic area where the labia majora meet. It is considered an anatomical feature and varies in visibility among individuals.

A Light-Year is a measure of DISTANCE, not TIME. A light-year is how far light can travel in one year.

Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, or a little faster than 11 million miles per minute. In metric terms, the speed of light is a tad less than 300,000 km/sec.

1 light year is approximately 5.9 trillion miles, 20.5 light years would therefore be 20.5 times 5.9 trillion miles or about 120 trillion miles. traveling at 100,000 mph it would take about 137,000 years to travel the distance.

The short answer is, because it has been producing and trapping greenhouse gases (primarily CO2, carbon dioxide) for billions of years.

It is currently believed that Venus used to have an atmosphere a lot more like ours until about 4 billion years ago. Venus, like Earth, has sufficient gravity to keep most of its atmospheric gases from flying off into space. However, Venus is 25% closer to the sun than we are, which means that before it developed its thick and reflective atmosphere, it would've received on average about 1.5 times as much solar energy as we do.

And unlike Earth, it has a very weak magnetic field. (The reasons for this are largely unknown, but may have something to do with its very slow 'day', which lasts 243 Earth days, or 1.1 times longer than the Venusian year itself.) It also lacks the tectonic plates that Earth has, which allow our mantle to vent a good portion of its heat energy in a somewhat controlled manner.

Possibly as a result of all this, Venus has a mantle which is much thicker and hotter than ours. This makes the planet extremely volcanically active, spewing great clouds of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the air. Additionally, it is believed that the heat of the mantle builds up until (about once every 700,000 years or so) it bursts through the crust of the planet all at once - which would not only produce a glut of greenhouse gases, but would boil off any water vapor into the upper atmosphere, where it would eventually be lost into space.

As a result, Venus is the victim of the greenhouse effect gone wild. At an average of 92 times Earth's atmospheric pressure at the surface, and temperatures exceeding 860 °F (460 °C), it is far too hot and dense for water vapor (or oxygen) to remain anywhere near the Venusian surface, and possibly reverse the effects.

Low in the western sky just after sunset (as of late winter 2009).

To find the location of Venus literally "right now" there are many websites that provide this information. Try http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance or http://www.nightskyinfo.com/maps_images/html/planets_visibility.htm

The atmosphere of Venus consists mainly of carbon dioxide, and a small amount of nitrogen. The thick cloud cover is composed of sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid droplets. Due to the dense atmosphere, the surface temperature ranges from 750 to 930 degrees Fahrenheit (398 to 498 Celsius). The surface pressure is 90 times that of Earth. That's like being one kilometer (more than half a mile) under the ocean.

NASA's manned probes only went as far as the Moon (1969-1972). But satellites have visited the planet, beginning with Mariner 2 in 1962. Between 1970 and 1985, the USSR (Russia) successfully landed ten unmanned Venera probes, which functioned for less than 2 hours each in the extreme heat. The NASA satellite Magellanmapped the planet with radar from 1989 to 1994 and studied various phenomena. The ESA satellite Venus Express has been orbiting the planet since 2006.

Not yet, and nobody is likely to for some time. Venus is VERY hot - above 900 degrees Fahrenheit - and has fairly high atmospheric pressure, about 90 times Earth's.

The pressure is bearable; humans live in deep ocean habitats at nearly those pressures, and submarines go deeper. But the temperature would be a killer. It will be quite a while before any people set foot on Venus.

One proposal that might work is to seed the cloudtops of Venus with a blue-green algae that could metabolize the sulfuric acid in the "air" of Venus, and release water vapor. It might be possible, over a few centuries or millennia, to "terraform" Venus and make it livable.

Venus is a rocky planet along with mercury,earth and mars(also known as the inner planets.) Jupiter,Saturn,uranus,neptune (and Pluto which is now classed as a dwarf planet)are all gas planets.

No, and it is doubtful they ever will. The environment on Venus is extremely hot, the atmosphere is extremely thick, and has acid in it. It is very difficult to even build robots that can stand up to it for more than seconds before they quit working.

The day gets longer in the evening, as the amount of daylight increases leading up to the summer solstice. Morning will begin to get longer after the summer solstice as daylight decreases.

Venus is the second planet from the sun and is known for its thick atmosphere composed mainly of carbon dioxide. It has a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead and experiences extreme pressures. Venus also has retrograde rotation, meaning it rotates on its axis in the opposite direction to most other planets.

224.7 Earth days is equivalent to approximately 0.62 Earth years. This calculation is based on the fact that there are approximately 365.25 Earth days in one Earth year.

The author of the book "The Namesake" is Jhumpa Lahiri.

A Soviet spacecraft that landed on Venus showed the sky to be yellow in a picture but this is because of the sulferous clouds in the Venusian atmosphere.

Finding shelter on Venus would be incredibly challenging due to its extreme temperatures and atmospheric composition. Any potential shelter would need to be well-insulated to protect from the heat and pressure, likely needing advanced technology and materials to withstand the harsh conditions. Underground habitats or specially designed structures may be necessary to provide shelter on Venus.