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Distance Size and Mass Venus is the second closest planet to the Sun Rotation Venus has a retrograde rotation moving in the opposite direction than most planets only Uranus also does this Surface Temperature 462 C Orbit Period 22470 Earth days Orbit Distance 108209475 km 073 AU Notable Moons None Known Moons None

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Venus Venus is almost the same size as the Earth but its proximity to the Sun and its massive carbon dioxide atmosphere keep its surface temperature at 465 C 870 F with a surface pressure of almost 100 times Earths High pass filtered color image of Venus from 27 million km taken from Galileo Credit NASAJPL

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This is a combination of images taken by the Magellan spacecraft The colors have been altered so you can see all the differences in Venuss surface Magellan used radar to get information about the surface of Venus which we cant normally see because of the thick cloudy atmosphere A crater on the surface of Venus Its 45 miles 72 km wide

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Soviet spacecraft made the most successful landings on the surface of Venus to date but they didnt survive long due to the extreme heat and crushing pressure An American probe one of NASAs Pioneer Venus Multiprobes survived for about an hour after impacting the surface in 1978 Venus Facts Color Rotation Temperature Size

Planet Venus color Size and temperature Venus orbit Surface temperature 900 F because of Venus curious retrograde rotation the time from one sunrise to the next is only about 117

Thirty miles up about 50 kilometers from the surface of Venus temperatures range from 86 to 158 Fahrenheit 30 to 70 Celsius year one trip around the Sun which takes only 225 Earth days For another because of the planets extremely slow rotation sunrise to sunset would take 117 Earth days Even though Venus is similar in size

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Venus is a cloudswaddled planet named for a love goddess and often called Earths twin But pull up a bit closer and Venus turns hellish Our nearest planetary neighbor the second planet from the Sun has a surface hot enough to melt lead The atmosphere is so thick that from the surface the Sun is just a smear of light Read More

Venus is the second planet from the SunIt is a terrestrial planet and is the closest in mass and size to its orbital neighbour EarthVenus has by far the densest atmosphere of the terrestrial planets composed mostly of carbon dioxide with a thick global sulfuric acid cloud cover At the surface it has a mean temperature of 737 K 464 C 867 F and a pressure 92 times that of Earths at

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mean surface temperature 737 K 867 F 464 C surface pressure at mean radius 95 bars and dark bands that are Vshaped and open toward the west Because of the allenveloping clouds little was known about Venuss surface atmosphere The rotation of Venus on its axis is unusual in both its direction and its speed The Sun and

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Orbit and Rotation Orbit and Rotation Spending a day on Venus would be quite a disorienting experience that is if your ship or suit could protect you from temperatures in the range of 900 degrees Fahrenheit 475 Celsius Even though Venus is similar in size to Earth and has a similarsized iron core the planet does not have its own