Climate of Venus

Answer 1

Consider our own planet Earth. The average temperature across planet Earth is 14°C; although it can get hotter than 50°C in summer in the hottest deserts. That's nothing compared to Venus.

On Venus, the average temperature is 460°C. That's also the maximum and the minimum. In other words, no matter where you go on Venus, the temperature is the same - night or day. The temperature at the poles is the same as at the equator.

Venus suffers from a runaway 'greenhouse effect' by the presence of huge quantities of carbon dioxide in it's massively dense atmosphere. It is closer to the Sun than the Earth and this exacerbates the problem. 8 Russian Venera space probes were crushed as they slowly descended into the atmosphere. The 9th succeeded but lasted 1 hour before it died of overheating.

Another reason why the temperature is the same everywhere is that Venus has a very small axial tilt. While the Earth is tilted 23 degrees compared to the Sun, Venus is only tilted 3 degrees.

The temperature does change with altitude; however. As you rise in altitude, the temperatures go down. In fact, there's a point in Venus above 50 km or so where the temperature and air pressure are roughly the same as we experience on Earth.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Venus is very hot, often around 460° C and there are winds (just a few km/h at the surface but around 300 km/h higher up) in the atmosphere which is very thick (92 times the pressure of Earth at sea level) The atmosphere consists of carbon dioxide [CO2] with sulfuric acid [H2SO4] clouds.
It's too darned hot.

The climate of Venus is pretty dull, yet strange. A Venus day is longer than a Venus year. A Venus year is about 225 Earth days long, while a Venus day is about 243 Earth days long. Yet, because of its travel around the Sun, there are two sunrises in every Venus day (if you could see them), coming about 117 Earth days apart.

Winds on Venus only go one direction: to the west. That's the same direction the planet rotates. Temperatures throughout Venus' atmosphere vary from -43°C in the uppermost cloud regions to 460°C (860°F) at the surface. The dense atmosphere and winds circulate the heat, so that the night side of Venus is just as hot.

A weather prediction would be pretty easy:

"It will be totally overcast today, with constant lightning and thunder in those sulfuric-acid clouds overhead, traveling westward over your base camp at about 360 km an hour. Going outside your camp would be inadvisable. Wind speeds on the surface will be about four miles an hour, but the atmospheric pressure will remain so high, and the air is so dense, that even a little breeze would carry you away like a raging river. You'd be better off about a kilometer below the surface of Earth's ocean. Oh, and don't forget -- the heat will be excruciating, although it would be a good day for firing pottery. If you do go outside, don't forget your oxygen pack, since there's practically nothing out there but carbon dioxide. Visibility will be low, as usual. The atmosphere is so dense, you won't be able to focus on anything farther than a hundred yards."

That would pretty much be the hourly, daily, monthly and yearly forecast anywhere on Venus. I guess you could say the climate of Venus is pretty stable.

Answer 4

The temprature on venus can reach up to 460 degrees(860 ferren height)the weather on venus is always stormy and windy and there are many eruptions because it is home to 167 volcanoes!

Answer 5

Its burning hot, the hottest planet in our solar system. Mercury is closer to the Sun, but has no atmosphere to hold in the heat. Venus gets up to 867 degrees Fahrenheit (HOT!).

Answer 6

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system. The average temperature on Venus is 870 degrees Fahrenheit and no liquid water exists on the planet. It has severe winds and acid rains.

Answer 7

Venus is very warm, enough to even melt lead.......and your popsicle.

Answer 8

The climate is hot, extremely hot. No life can exist on Venus because of the extreme temperatures.

Answer 9

There is no weather in venus is just hot.

Answer 10

Dusty and cloudy you should no that!