VENUS!!!

1. ‘STAR’
Venus, the jewel of the sky, was once known by ancient astronomers as the morning star and evening star. It
shone the brightest of the five planets known to ancient astronomers.

2. ITS NAME
Venus, which is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, is veiled by thick swirling cloud cover.

3. EARTH TWIN
They are somehow similar in size, mass, density and volume. Both formed about the same time and condensed
out of the same nebula.
 But then scientists found out that Venus is very different from the Earth. It has no oceans and is surrounded
by a heavy atmosphere composed mainly of carbon dioxide and sulphuric acid droplets. = greenhouse effect
 The planet doesn't rotate fast enough to generate an Earth-like magnetic field. One possible reason for this
is that Venus has no solid inner core, or that its core is not cooling.

4. A DAY LONGER THAN A YEAR

One day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days because Venus spins backwards, with its sun rising in the west and
setting in the east.

5. DIVERSE TERRAIN
Venus' solid surface is a volcanic landscape covered with extensive plains featuring high volcanic mountains
and vast ridged plateaus.

6. Venus has no moons nor rings.

7. THE ‘BEST’
Venus is the hottest and the brightest planet. Venus is brighter than any other planet or even any star in the night
sky because of its highly reflective clouds and its closeness to our planet.

8. GREAT PRESSURE

The atmospheric pressure of Venus is 92 times stronger than Earth’s. This means that any small
asteroids entering the atmosphere of Venus are crushed by the immense pressure, which is why there
are no small surface craters on the planet.

9. OPPOSITE DIRECTION
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. A possible reason might be a collision in the past
with an asteroid or other object that caused the planet to alter its rotational path. It also differs from most other
planets in our solar system by having no natural satellites.

 GREENHOUSE EFFECT
The planet’s surface temperature is about 900 degrees Fahrenheit (465 degrees Celsius)—hot enough to
melt lead.

Venus also possesses a number of surface features unlike anything on Earth. For example, Venus has coronae, or crowns
— ring-like structures that range from roughly 95 to 360 miles (155 to 580 km) wide. Scientists believe these formed when
hot material beneath the crust rises up, warping the planet's surface.

Venus also has tesserae, or tiles — raised areas in which many ridges and valleys have formed in different directions.

Venus' molten rocky mantle is roughly 1,200 miles (3,000 km) thick. Venus' crust is mostly basalt, and is estimated to be
six to 12 miles (10 to 20 km) thick on average. Climate The very top layer of Venus' clouds zip around the planet every four
Earth-days, propelled by hurricane-force winds traveling roughly 224 mph (360 kph). This super-rotation of the planet's
atmosphere, some 60 times faster than Venus itself rotates, may be one of Venus' biggest mysteries.
The Venus Express spacecraft, a European Space Agency mission that operated between 2005 and 2014, intriguingly
found evidence of lightning on the planet. This lightning is unique from that found on the other planets in the solar system,
in that it is not associated with water clouds. Instead, on Venus, the lightning is associated with clouds of sulfuric acid.

 At one point it was thought Venus might be a tropical paradise.

The dense clouds of sulphuric acid surrounding Venus make it impossible to view its surface from outside its
atmosphere. It was only when radio mapping was developed in the 1960s that scientists were able to observe and
measure the extreme temperatures and hostile environment. It is thought Venus did once have oceans but these
evaporated as the planets temperature increased.
 Venus (Greek: Aphrodite; Babylonian: Ishtar) is the goddess of love and beauty. The planet is so named probably
because it is the brightest of the planets known to the ancients. (With a few exceptions, the surface features on
Venus are named for female figures.) Venus has been known since prehistoric times. It is the brightest object in the
sky except for the Sun and the Moon. Like Mercury, it was popularly thought to be two separate bodies: Eosphorus
as the morning star and Hesperus as the evening star, but the Greek astronomers knew better. (Venus's apparition
as the morning star is also sometimes called Lucifer.)