VENUS

By : Brenda Johnson

VENUS’S SYMBOL

HOW IT GOT IT’S NAME

Venus was named after the roman goddess of love

(in greek Aphrodite)

DISCOVERY

Venus was discovered by Copernicus when he

developed his model of the solar system and that’s

when both Venus and Earth became planets. Venus

was dicovered in 1633.

DISTANCES

Order from the sun- 2nd planet from the sun

Distance from the sun in km- 108.1 km

Distance from earth in km- 261 million km

VENUS’S MEASUREMENTS

Mass- 4.867e24kg

Volume- 928,415,345,893,km3

Density- 5.20 g/cm8

Gravity- 8.87 m/s2

ORBIT AND ROTATION

It takes Venus about 225 Earth day to orbit the sun

and It takes Venus nearly 243 earth days to spin

once on its axis (243.02 earth days)

ATMOSPHERE

96% of Venus’s atmosphere is carbon dioxide with

most of the remainder being nitrogen. The

atmosphere contains little water and it is very thick .

TEMPERATURE

The average temperature of Venus is 460 degrees

celsius is way hotter than Earth’s temperatures.

COMPOSITION/ APPEARANCE

Venus is a rocky planet the internal composition is

the core, mantel, and crust. Venus looks like Earth in

size and composition. It has no ring and no moons. It

has thick gas clouds but the planet itself is rocky and

soild.

WEATHER

The weather is more than 460 degrees celsius.

RINGS

Venus has no rings

MOONS

Venus has no moons

WATER

The only water on Venus is at a tiny amount

(0.002%) of water vapor in the atmosphere.

HUMAN TRAVELED TO VENUS…..

If a human travels to Venus you wouldn’t be able to

breathe because of the atmosphere so if you went to

Venus you would die.

SOMETHING SPECIAL

A year on Venus is shorter than it’s day.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.bobthealien.co.uk/venusten.htm

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planetselector.cfm?Ob

ject=

Venus

http://distancefrom.facts.co/earthtovenus/distanceb

etweenearthandvenus.

php

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.windows2universe.org/venus/statistics.

html

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/43-What-is-t

he-atmosphere-of-Venus-like

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