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Planet Venus
The 2nd planet from the Sun in our solar system. Excluding the moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky.
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Venus average distance from the sun?
The average distance the planet Venus is from the sun is 67,240,000 miles. Venus is the second closet planet to the sun.
What is the highest mountain in Venus's?
The highest mountain on Venus is Maxwell Montes, which reaches an elevation of about 20,000 feet (about 12 kilometers). It is located on the planet's Ishtar Terra highland region and is believed to be an ancient volcano.
What is the color the atmosphere on the planet Venus?
The atmosphere on Venus appears yellowish due to sulfur dioxide, which scatters light in the yellow part of the spectrum.
Yes, Venus is known for its extremely strong winds. The planet has an atmosphere that rotates much faster than its surface, creating hurricane-force winds that can reach speeds of up to 224 miles per hour (360 kilometers per hour).
How many natural and artificial satellites does Venus have?
Venus has no natural satellites. It does have two artificial satellites (space probes). Venus is one of the two planets in our solar system (together with Mercury) that have no moon/natural satellite.
What was the name of spacecraft that observed Venus in 1962?
There were more than one spacecrafts that explored (or attempted to explore) Venus in 1962. Namely, Mariner 1 (US), Sputnik 19 (USSR), Mariner 2 (US), Sputnik 20 (USSR) and Sputnik 21 (USSR). http://www.mentallandscape.com/V_VenusMissions.htm
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The atmosphere of Venus is made up mainly of carbon dioxide, and thick clouds of sulfuric acid completely cover the planet. The atmosphere traps the small amount of energy from the sun that does reach the surface along with the heat the planet itself releases. Thisgreenhouse effect has made the surface and lower atmosphere of Venus one of the hottest places in the solar system! If you were on the surface of the planet, the air above you would be about 90 times heavier than the Earth's atmosphere. This is like what a submarine experiences at 3000 ft below the surface of the Earth's ocean. The atmosphere is composed mainly of carbon dioxide (96%), 3.5% nitrogen, and less than 1% is made up of carbon monoxide, argon, sulfur dioxide, and water vapor.
Venus is believed to have formed in a similar way to other planets in our solar system, from the leftover gas and dust of the early solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago. It likely underwent processes like accretion and differentiation to become the planet we see today.
Some facts about Venus:
- Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and is usually the closest planet to Earth. Only Mercury is closer to the Sun.
- 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.
- Venus takes longer to spin once (243 days) than it takes to orbit the Sun (225 days).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Most are not active now.
- Venus rotates so slowly that a day on Venus is longer than its year. The "solar day" created is about 117 Earth days. Which means that a "school day" on Venus would last almost four months!
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. Radar mapping of the planet shows lots of craters and that 90% of the landforms are volcanic. Venus spins slowly retrograde (backwards, east to west) in 243 days and takes about 225 days to orbit the sun. This makes the solar day last about 117 Earth 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 on Earth.
Venus is the brightest planet on the sky
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Venus rotates in the opposite direction to all the other planets, except
for Uranus. Also its rotation is the slowest of all the planets.
Venus has the highest temperatures found on any planet in our solar system.
This partly due to its very dense carbon dioxide atmosphere.
The atmosphere contains clouds of sulfuric acid.
1. Hottest planet 2. 2nd planet from the sun 3. similar to earth. known as "twin planet" with earth 4. no moons or rings 5. diameter 7,159 mi. 6. 67.24 million miles from sun 7. surface temperature: 867 degrees 8. the "evening star" 9. "morning star" 10. named for the roman goddess of love and beauty
Venus is covered by thich poisonious clouds.
Venus is the most biggest right
It takes 8 months for Venus to rotate once on its axis.
Venus is named for the Roman goddess of beauty and love, equivalent to the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
What is the composition of Venus?
- The planet appears to be similar to Earth, with an iron and nickel core and a crust of mostly silicate minerals.
- The atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide (~96.5%) and nitrogen (about 3.5%). Sulfur is only a fractional percentage but creates the blanket of clouds (sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid) that shrouds the planet from view.
The amounts of the elements in the atmosphere are:
~96.5% Carbon dioxide
~3.5% Nitrogen
0.015% Sulfur Dioxide
0.007% Argon
0.002% water vapor
0.001 7% Carbon monoxide
0.001 2% Helium
0.0007% Neon
trace Carbonyl sulfide
trace Hydrogen chloride
trace Hydrogen fluoride
"Earth's twin" is often used to refer to Venus due to their similar size, mass, and proximity to the Sun. However, Venus has a much different atmosphere, with extreme temperatures and a dense cloud cover of sulfuric acid.
Does Venus have a magnetic field?
No, it does not. This may be due to its extremely slow rotation, which is just a little over its year.
Another Answer:
Venus does not have a traditional magnetic field caused by the dynamo effect such as the Earth's, but it does have a small magnetosphere, due to the interaction of the solar winds from the Sun and Venus' atmosphere.
1 day on Venus is equal to how many earth days?
It takes about 243 days for Venus to rotate once. This is called a sidereal day.
However Venus has a "solar day" of about 117 Earth days. The solar day is
how long the Sun takes to move across the sky from noon to noon. This depends not just on the spin of a planet ,but also on it's journey round the
Sun.
Was Venus's named after a god?
To easy to awnser......... the roman god Venus, has a greek name to Aphrodite. just like Neptune is Posiden and Mars is Ares. Almost every major god is named after a planet for Romans. Romans had a huge respect for gods and planets, so its just away to connect them together
What size is the planet Venus?
Venus is almost the same size as Earth.
Earth's diameter is 7,926 miles (12,756 kilometers)
Venus's diameter is 7,257 miles (11,677 kilometers)
It has a volume of 9.38×1011 km3 and a mass of 4.868 X1024 kg
It has a surface area of 4.60 × 108 km2
It is about 0.9499 the size of Earth.
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What does the Worship of Venus mean?
This question references the Greco-Roman goddess of Venus, who represents love, beauty and the feminine. Greco-Roman mythological deities are also the etymology for the naming of the planet(s). The worship of Venus regards the ceremonies and prayers in dedication to her. For example Hercules was also adored and revered in the same way by the Romans.
What color does Venus appear to be?
Venus should appear to be a greenish-white (more on the white side).
No. We got our first close-up look at Pluto when the New Horizons spacecraft made a flyby on July 14, 2015. It passed within 12,500 km of the Pluto-Charon system but could not orbit or land. The very high speed of the spacecraft got it to Pluto in "only" 9 years but with no way to slow down once it got there.
What are some characteristics of Venus?
- It's called the evening and morning star.
- It has a diameter of 12,000 km.
- The length of a day in venus is = 243 hours on earth.
- The length of its year is 0.64 compared to earth's year.
- It's closest planet to earth.
- It has no moons.
- It's covered with clouds.
- The atmosphere is carbon dioxiode.
- The temperature is 500 degrees celcius.
- Atmospheric pressure is 9.8
Yes, Venus is primarily composed of rock. Its composition is mainly made up of silicate rocks similar to those found on Earth. Venus's surface is covered in volcanic plains, mountains, and other rocky features.
Do airlines charge air fare for minors that is less then two years?
Most airlines do not charge air fare for infants under the age of two if they are sitting on an adult's lap during the flight. However, there may be taxes or fees associated with the ticket. It is always best to check with the airline directly for their specific policy on infant fares.
It is a solid surface with nothing growing on it. It consists mainly of flat plains, with some lower areas and higher areas. There are lots of rocks on the surface. It is extremely hot, about 17 times hotter than the average temperature on Earth.
