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What is the land like on Venus?
The surface of Venus is a very hot and dry place. Most of the surface is made up of gently rolling plains. Venus has several large lowlands and two large highland areas which are about the size of Australia and South America.
How would you describe Venus?
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and is Earth’s closest neighbor in the solar system. Venus is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon, and sometimes looks like a bright star in the morning or evening sky. The planet is a little smaller than Earth, and is similar to Earth inside.
What’s special about Venus?
Our brightest planet While Venus is not nearly the largest planet of the solar system, its proximity to Earth makes it the brightest of the planets in the sky. It also qualifies as the second-brightest object in the nighttime sky, after only the moon.
Why does Venus rotate in a different direction?
For starters, it spins in the opposite direction from most other planets, including Earth, so that on Venus the sun rises in the west. Such tides, combined with friction between Venus’s mantle and core, could have caused the flip in the first place.
What is the rotation and revolution of Venus?
Venus: Planet Profile
Mass (kg) | 4.87 x 1024 |
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Rotation period (length of day in Earth days) | 243.02 (retrograde) |
Revolution period (length of year in Earth days) | 224.7 |
Obliquity (tilt of axis degrees) | 178 |
Orbit inclination (degrees) | 3.39 |
What is the texture of Venus?
Rocky ground lies beneath the layers of clouds. But unlike Mars and Mercury, which are both scarred by craters, Venus has a relatively smooth surface. Early in the history of the solar system, while planets such as Venus were forming, the cloud of dust and rock orbiting the sun was a chaotic place.