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Venus is the second planet from the sun, but it is far from being a twin of Earth. Learn about its scorching temperatures, oddball rotation, and mysterious history in this National Geographic ...
Venus was the first planet to be visited by a spacecraft. In 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 flew by the planet and discovered it was a hot world with no self-generated magnetic field. T he Soviet Union became the world leader in early Venus exploration after that, sending multiple atmospheric probes and as many as ten landers to the planet.
The planet’s orbit around the Sun takes 225 Earth days, compared to the Earth’s 365. A day on the surface of Venus (solar day) takes 117 Earth days. Venus rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets. This means that Venus is rotating in the opposite direction to the Sun, this is also known as a retrograde rotation.
Venus își atinge luminozitatea maximă cu câteva ore înainte de răsărit sau după apus, motiv pentru care popular este cunoscută sub numele de Luceafărul de dimineață și Luceafărul de seară. Planeta nu are nici un satelit, caracteristică pe care o împărtășește doar cu Mercur între planetele din Sistemul Solar.
Owing to similarity in size, mass and composition, Venus is sometimes called Earth's sister planet. With an equatorial circumference of 38,025 kilometres and radius of 6,052 kilometres, Venus is only marginally smaller than Earth. Venus has an iron core around the same size as Earth's - approximately 3,000 kilometres in radius.
Sep 26, 2019 · Venus is the second closest planet to the Sun, at a distance of 108.2 million km/ 67.24 mi or 0.7 AU receiving the sun’s light in 6 minutes. Venus has a radius of 6.051 km or 3.760 miles and a diameter of 12.104 km or 7.521 mi, slightly smaller than Earth. It has a mass of 4.87 × 10 24 kg, or 85% that of Earth.
Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken...
