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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LazarusVenus is almost the same size as Earth. Earth's diameter is 7,926 miles (12,756 kilometers) Venus's diameter is 7,257 miles...
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The average temperature on Venus is about 464 °C (867°F). It is this hot because it is the second planet from the sun, and has...
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They both reach very high temperatures They are both closer to the sun than earth They are both made of rock They are both...
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Venus is scorched with a surface temperature of about 482° C (900° F). The surface pressure is 96 bars (compared with 1 bar for...
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The Morning and Evening Star are a references to the planet Venus. Because it reflects the light from the sun so well it is...
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Since Venus can be seen with the naked eye, no one really knows who discovered Venus. Venus' beautiful color made it easy for...
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Venus is closer to the sun than any other planet except Mercury. Its mean (average) distance from the sun is about 67 million...
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The distance between Venus and Earth varies depending on where the two planets are in their orbits. At their closest, the gap...
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As with all planets Venus' orbit is slightly elliptical, at the closest point (Perihelion) Venus is 107,476,259 KM from the Sun,...
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Unlikely. Although numerous probes have (semi) successfully landed on Venus and reported back thanks to the Russians and there...
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The diameter of Venus is about 12103.6 kilometers or 7520.8 miles. The very slow (clockwise) spin of the planet means that there...
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First Venus does not have a strong magnetic field of the same type as the Earth. The Earth N-S fields are created by the flow of...
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No signs of life of any sort have been found on Venus, or any other place outside of the Earth.
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How Venus Got Its Name The Romans knew of seven bright objects in the sky, the sun, the moon and the five brightest planets. They...
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Venus has perpetual very thick cloud layers, so on the surface there would be no visible sunrise. If the clouds were somehow...
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Near the surface: Sulphuric Acid vapor. For most of the atmosphere above the surface: Carbon Dioxide.
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No. One revolution of Earth is one year. One rotation, relative to the distant stars, is a sidereal day, and is about 23 hours...
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Because Venus's spin is retrograde, that is to say it spins backwards. Notably it travels around the sun faster than it spins on...
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Venus rises heliacaly when reaching arcus visionis between 5.3 and 6.0 degrees. (Arcus visionis is the altitude of the Sun below...
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The Mariner 2 probe took about 3½ months to reach Venus.
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Approximately 4.87 x1024 kg or 0.815 that of Earth.
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It keeps it very hot 500+ degrees Cecilius.
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The distance between Venus and Earth varies from 38 million kilometres (23.7 million miles, 0.254 AU) at it's closest point to...
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A year on Venus is about 225 Earth days long (224.7 days).Venus's rotational period (sidereal day) is 243 Earth days, and it is...
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Venus contains the following gases in its atmosphere: Carbon dioxide (96.5%) Water vapour (0.002%) Argon (0.007) Neon (0.0007)...
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Some facts and explanations about Venus: Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and usually the closest planet to Earth Venus...
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because the moon and planets have the suns rays bouncing to earth gfdg
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Venus does not have any moons or rings. The only other planet in our Solar System without a moon is Mercury. (See related...
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Some facts and explanations about Venus: Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and usually the closest planet to Earth Venus...
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The Russians sent 10 probes there between 1967 (Venera 4) and 1983 (Venera 15).
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Venus has been known since antiquity, and was named by the early Sumerian and Babylonian astrologers. It was discovered to be...
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Until it lost its planetary status in 2006, Pluto was the coldest with an estimated surface temperature between -235 and -210...
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Another name for Venue is Hesperus.
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No, Venus has no moons. Either none were formed during its history as a planet, or any that may have been formed could have been...
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Venus is so hot because of a number of reasons. It is closer to the Sun than Earth but that is not the only reason. Venus has an...
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Venus is the closest planet to Earth, but it does not have oceans or human life like Earth. Depending on their relative...
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Venus is unusual in its extremely slow rotation, taking nearly 243 Earth days to spin once on its axis (243.02 Earth days or...
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The temperature of Venus is fairly constant:- 735 degrees Kelvin 461 degrees Centigrade. 863.33 degrees Fahrenheit
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Maybe Taurus, because Tauruses are very romantic, but since Pisces is typically stubborn and not fun, Taurus can get bored and...
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Consider our own planet Earth. The average temperature across planet Earth is 14°C; although it can get hotter than 50°C in...
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From Earth, Venus appears a very light gray or tan, and pale blue near the poles. Some of this coloration is from the sulfur...
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Venus has a very strong greenhouse effect. A greenhouse effect is when the
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Hi As far as I am aware Carbon Trioxide is formed in the plasma of a coronal discharge, and the closest place we have one of...
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6,052 km or 3,760 mi it is 6051.8 kilometers.
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The atmosphere is mostly made up of Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen. It is about 96.5% Carbon Dioxide and 3.5% Nitrogen with other...
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The temperature of Venus is fairly constant at 730 degrees Kelvin
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1 you bellend its in the same solar systrem as us
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Because Venus orbits closer to the Sun than the Earth, the angle between Venus and the Sun can never reach 180 degrees (the Sun...
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Earth Without a Moon Tides will still exist from the sun. It is the moons gravitational pull acting on the water as the earth...
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Venus has a low atmosphere and it is rally hot
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Yes - the atmosphere of Venus is 90 times more dense than that on Earth and it is made of 96.5% of CO2 and a 3% of nitrogen....
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Venus appears in the sky just before sunrise and sunset
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10.7hours of earth
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comits meteors shooting stars stars moons and of course planets The eight planets of the solar system (from closest to the sun...
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Its burning hot...... the hottest planet in our solar system.(mercury is closer to the sun, but has no atmosphere to hold in the...
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The two planets in Florida's western night sky are Venus and Jupiter, with Venus being the brighter of the two.
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because venus dont like moon
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Venus, and the Sun are the two brightest objects in the sky. The moon is also bright but only because it reflects the suns light...
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The gravity on Venus would be about 90.4% of Earth's (0.904 g). Although the planet has a smaller mass, it also has a slightly...
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The surface of Venus is a thick crust of dried up volcanic lava. Most of the minerals are apparently similar to Earth's, but with...
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Venus orbits the sun in approximately 225 Earth days. (224.70069 days) Strange as it may seem, Venus rotates so slowly that a...
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Well, Venus is extremely hot. This is because it is close to the sun, and all the toxic gases surrounding it keep in the heat....
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about 243 days Venus rotates once every 243 days making its day longer than its year at about 255 days.
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Because of Venus's thick atmosphere the temperature doesn't really change much and because of this the temperature stays around...
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i don't know ask someone else
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Because it is closer to the Sun and has a shorter orbit, it takes Venus only about 225 Earth days (224.7 days) to go around the...
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Maxwell Montes is a mountain massif on the planet Venus, part of which contains the highest point on the planet's surface at...
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Venus orbits the Sun at about 78,341 miles per hour.
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AnswerSolid.all the inner planets are solid.and then once you get to Jupiter and beyond they are all gas planets. Inner:...
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AnswerNo. Since the planet Venus is not tilted as it circles the sun, it has no seasons. but you could tan there cause it is so...
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The temperature on Venus has been measured in a variety of ways, and appears to be nearly uniform across the planet, even at the...
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Firstly Mars is about twice as far away from the sun than Venus (about 200 million km for Mars, 100 million km for Venus). Also,...
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The force of gravity.
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All things that have mass also have gravity. Newton's equation of: Fg = Gm1m2/r2 Where Fg is the force of gravity between...
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The planet Venus is called the morning star* because it can appear as the brightest, and most visible celestial object (other...
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Venus' orbit is not very unusual. It does have the most nearly circular orbit of all the planets, but that's not all that...
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Mars, Venus or the international space station
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Unlike the other major planets, Venus rotates in a slow clockwise direction (from east to west). Scientists speculate that Venus...
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While the temperature and pressure on the surface are far just too great for colonization, there is an area 50km above the...
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Venus has several times as many volcanoes as Earth, and it possesses some 167 giant volcanoes that are over 100 km across. That's...
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Venus appears as a bright star (with an orange hue) in the hours just before sunrise or just after sunset (because the planet is...
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From Earth, Venus appears mostly gray, although slightly yellowish, brown or blue under various circumstances. Once beneath the...
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243 earth days. 0.615earth years.
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Each day is 2802 Earth hours long.Each year is 224.7 Earth days long.
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The average temperature is 450 degrees Celsius day and night. The cloud cover is so extensive that daily differences are minute.
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The temperature of Venus does not change much from day-to-night (or even from pole to equator). The temperature is a steady 460...
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Venus's surface temperature is hugely hotter than Earth's. Earth's temperature runs between -50 degrees and 140 degrees, with...
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it all depends on what planet your asking about. other planets is not specific enough. when you have an exact planet we cant help
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Mercury and Venus, the inferior planets.
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it is a planet and if you go to what does venus look like.com then it will probably tell you
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View the links below for more info.
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It varies depending on the time of year. The planet Venus will appear near the setting or rising Sun, that is either shortly...
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Venus has a very thick atmosphere, made up mostly of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide, just like on Earth, is a greenhouse gas,...
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The solar year of Venus should be shorter than the solar year of Mars because Venus is closer to the sun, so its rotation around...
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