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The planet is named after the Goddess of Love and Beauty. Venus was the daughter of Zeus. She was the most beautiful of the Olympians. But she wed the homeliest, the Lame Blacksmith. Venus was said to have been born of the sea, and she was originally the “Keeper of Gardens”. Venus was known for her romantic affairs with both Gods and Mortals.

Venus represents girl power! Her sign is the sign we often use to represent girls and women.

 

Venus’ atmosphere is a lot of carbon dioxide. The thick layer of carbon dioxide acts like a blanket over the planet to maintain it’s high temperature. Poisonous vapors and acids are also in the atmosphere of Venus, though it is 96% carbon dioxide. Some of those vapors and acids are; nitrogen, water vapor, argon, carbon monoxide, neon and sulfur dioxide. But all of those are only 4% of the atmosphere.

here is no sign of a visit to Venus in the near future, because the atmosphere is so thick that it would crunch a human’s body very soon after the human stepped on to the planet!

 

The size of Venus is exactly like the earths. Venus has an iron core just like the earth. A big thick layer of clouds always covers Venus. This makes it very hard to see the surface from space. But the surface is very much alike Earth’s. The clouds contain very little water vapour. There’s not much evidence that there was ever water on Venus. There may have been water before, but if it was ever there it would have been evaporated into the upper atmosphere where it was broken up by sunlight and solar wind into oxygen and hydrogen.

 

Many like to say that Venus is Earths sister planet, due to their alikeness in size. But Mars in in fact the most Earth like planet. here are some obvious ways that Venus and Earth are and aren't alike!

Ways how Venus is not like her sister planet Earth:

  • The slow rotational time
  • The single place surface
  • The lack of Satellite
  • The extremely weak magnetic Field
  • The lack of water
  • The high surface temperature
  • There is no life form

    • Ways how Venus is like her sister planet Earth:

  • When Venus is in Fared it resembles to Earth.
  • They are almost the same size.

    • One day on Venus is approximately 243 Earth days. So it obviously rotates very, very slowly. One Earth day is 24 hours, and one Venus Day is 5 832 hours! Big difference!

    A length of a year in Venus is 225 days! So actually, Venus is very different from Earth, because one day on Venus is shorter then one year!

    Venus, at it’s shortest point, is 12 104 kilometers from the sun.

    The general temperature on Venus is 460 degrees Celsius, (much hotter then most ovens!). 220 degrees Celsius (much more hot then any temperature Earth could ever handle) is deep freeze on Venus!

    There has been no human contact on Venus, and there will not be in the near future, because it would take a very high tech space suit for any human to survive on Venus, even for a short period of time! And there has been no evidence, or sign of life on Venus. And if there is, and it is surviving on Venus than it would have to differ in countless ways from the human race.

     

    Well, I would tell you about Venus' moons. But Venus and Mercury are the only two planets in the solar system that don't have any discovered moons. It is very unlikely that either planet has any moons.

     

       

     

     

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