By Raven P

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

A FINAL WORD ON VENUS

Venus is a very interesting planet Venus is a god from Rome, but she

was originally from Greece Venus is possibly the actual sister

to Earth