Venus

The hot neighbor next door.

Stats• Distance from the sun: 67 million miles

• Rocky, cratered, and volcanic landscape

• Thick and toxic atmosphere made of

• CO2, Nitrogen, and clouds of Sulfuric

• acid (H2SO4) droplets

• Has no moons and no rings

• Spins retrograde rotation (backwards)

• This means the sun rises in the west

• and sets in the east.

A day on Venus• 1 day = 243 Earth days.

• Orbital period around the sun is

• 225 Earth days.

• Forecast: Cloudy, Cloudy, Cloudy

• The temperatures

• are hot enough to

• melt lead.

• 900 degrees F.

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Gravity on Venus

• The acceleration of gravity is 8.87 m/s2

• Mass: 4.87E24 Kg, radius: 6052 km• The planet has been studied by over 40

spacecraft.

• Most likely the inhospitable environment• was caused by a runaway greenhouse• effect.

Transits of Venus

• The transits of venus occur in pairs.• More than a century separates• the pairs. Next one in 2117.• Recorded transits:• 1631, 1639,• 1761, 1769, • 1874, 1882, • 2004, 2012,

http://www.universetoday.com/95758/transit-of-venus-redux-more-great-images/

Inclination

Venus Videos

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqFVxWfVtoo

• Nasa: Documentary

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1mEa_Mnc0c

Videos Continued

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR-IWhZZDJY

• This is a documentary 25 minutes long.