Today it is Venus, the second closest and the hottest of all the planets. Venus is 108 million miles away from the sun, consequently making it take 225 Earth days to orbit around the sun and 243 days for one day. (And you thought Mercury was bad!)
The name Venus is from the Roman Goddess, Venus, Goddess of love. Venus's temperature is an average of 460 degrees, day or night. Why? Because Venus has a lot of clouds in it's atmosphere full of greenhouse gasses, making it trap in heat.
Venus's surface is very rocky and full of volcanoes and magma streams. Lightning is not a rare thing on Venus, in fact, lightning on Venus can strike thousands of times a second! In fact, two probes have been sent to land on Venus's surface. None returned.
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| A mapped version of Venus's surface. |
Interesting facts
- Venus is also known is the morning star, being found always in the east of the sky (in the northern hemisphere) around four to six in the morning.
- It is also known as the Evening star as well!
- Venus's atmosphere is 98% Carbon Dioxide.
- The Atmospheric pressure of Venus compared to Earth is 90 times more.
- Earth has a mass only 0.18 times than Venus.
- Venus has no moons
Good Bye everyone!
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