4. One day on Venus
lasts 243 Earth days
because Venus spins
backwards, with its
sun rising in the west
and setting in the
east.
Venus hardly rotates at all
5. Venus receives nearly
twice as much
sunlight as Earth
because it’s much
closer to the sun. But
it’s because 96.5% of
Venus atmosphere is
carbon dioxide, the
greenhouse effect is
in full effect on Venus
VENUS IS THE HOTTEST PLANET IN THE
SOLAR SYSTEM
Like Earth,
sunlight heats the
surface. But the
heat is contained
because of the
clouds and carbon
dioxide preventing
it from escaping.
6. The interior of Venus
is probably similar to
Earth's interior.
Venus, like Earth, is
one of the terrestrial
planets and is made
of rock and metal. It
probably has a partly
molten metallic core,
a rocky mantle, and a
crust.
Core
mantle
crust
THE CORE OF VENUS
7. Venus clouds have
droplets of sulfuric
acid, so for the most
part we can’t see the
surface due to the
clouds thickness. But
spacecrafts like
Pioneer, Venera and
Magellan use radar
mapping to see it.
IT RAINS SULFURIC ACID
8. In terms of size,
Venus is like a twin of
the Earth. Its radius
is 6025 km which is
about 95% of Earth’s
radius.
VENUS IT’S CLOSE TO EARTH IN SIZE
9. Gravity on Venus is
about 90% of Earth’s
force of gravity. That
means that you’d
weigh 10% less.
Because it has a large
gravity like Earth, it
also has an
atmosphere like
Earth.
AND GRAVITY