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Venus is the 2nd planet from the Sun.
It is approximately 6,790,000 miles from the sun.
It is about 7,421 feet in diameter. It orbits in the opposite direction
of all planetary orbits It has 0, count them, 0 moons
Venus’s atmosphere is very poisonous, one of the reasons why we have not traveled there, yet.
It includes carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and other deadly gases
Its name comes from the roman god of love of beauty
It also has a volcano named after a Norse god
Know in Greece as Aphrodite Stands for Female
Is the brightest thing in the sky other than the Sun or Moon
Has phases like the moon It has no magnetic field Like Earth, has few craters,
showing a young planet
Venus and Earth sometimes referred as “sisters”
Venus only slightly smaller than Earth
It takes 1 ½ of Venus’s orbit to equal 1 Earth orbit
One Venus orbit is 264.5 days
Venus has been visited by many unmanned space crafts
One was the Pioneer Venus Orbiter
ANCIENT TIMES
Since ancient times, Venus has always been know
At that time, was thought to be two separate bodies, Eosphorus, the morning star, and Hesperus, the evening star
Also called Lucifer
DISCOVERY
Discovered by Pythagoras in 6th century BC, but he thought it revolved around Earth
Copernicus then discovered that it did not revolve around Earth, making it a planet
Galileo was the first to find out that it has phases
VENUS FUN FACTS
Surface temperatures can reach a high of 483 degrees Celsius
It is the 6th largest planet It is one of the five planets that can
be seen without a telescope The only planet named after a
female figure