VENUS The Second Internal Planet

Prepared by: ndy Mae M. Tinagan BEED-ECE 3

CONTENTS
I. Origin II.Characteristics III.Orbital Characteristics IV.Composition V.Location VI.References

origin
Venus is the same origin for all the planets in the Solar System-they all formed out of the solar nebula, billions of years ago. the second closest planet to our sun, is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. --Venus (Greek: Aphrodite; Babylonian: Ishtar). the brightest of the planets known to the ancients. (With a few exceptions, the surface

origin
Venus has been known since prehistoric times. It is the brightest object in the sky except for the Sun and the Moon. Like Mercury, it was popularly thought to be two separate bodies: Eosphorus as the morning star and Hesperus as the evening star, but the Greek astronomers knew better. (Venus's apparition as the morning star is also sometimes called Lucifer.) Since Venus is an inferior planet, it shows phases when viewed with a telescope from the perspective of Earth. Galileo's observation of this

characteristics
the hottest world in the solar system. Although Venus is not the planet closest to the sun, its dense atmosphere traps heat in a runaway version of the greenhouse effect that warms up the Earth. As a result, temperatures on Venus reach 870 degrees F (465 degrees C), more than hot enough to melt lead. Probes that scientists have landed there have survived only a few hours before getting destroyed.

Venus has a hellish atmosphere as well, consisting mainly of carbon dioxide with clouds of sulfuric acid, and scientists have only detected trace amounts of water in the atmosphere. The

characteristics
The surface of Venus is extremely dry. There is no liquid water on its surface because the scorching heat would cause any to boil away. Roughly two-thirds percent of the Venusian surface is covered by flat, smooth plains that are marred by thousands of volcanoes, ranging from about 0.5 to 150 miles (0.8 to 240 kilometers) wide, with lava flows carving long, winding canals up to more than 3,000 miles (5,000 kilometers) in length, longer than on any other planet. Six mountainous regions make up about one-third percent of the Venusian surface. One mountain range, called Maxwell, is about 540 miles (870

Venus's Orbital Characteristics

If viewed from above, while most planets rotate the same way on their axes, Venus rotates the opposite way. While on Earth, the sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west, if on Venus, the sun would rise in the west and set in the east. The Venusian year the time it takes to orbit the sun is about 225 Earth days long. At the same time, it takes Venus 243 Earth days to rotate on its axis, which normally would mean that days on Venus would be longer than years. However, because of Venus' curious retrograde rotation, the time from one sunrise to the next is only about 117 Earth days long.

Inside Venus
The interior of Venus is Venus is a slightly probably similar to smaller than the Earth's interior. Venus, like Earth, with a Earth, is one of the terrestrial diameter 95% that of planets and is made of rock Earth (12,103 km) and metal. It probably has a and a mass 81% that partly molten metallic core, a of Earth. If we could rocky mantle, and a crust. The walk around on the planet rotates very slowly, surface of the planet taking more than 243 Earth (without being killed days to spin once on it's by the toxic blast axis (even longer than the furnace of time it takes for Venus to orbit an atmosphere), the Sun, about 225 Earth gravity would be days). This may be the reason close to that on the the planet doesn't have surface of Earth. a magnetic field like many of the other planets, including Earth. The varied terrain of Venus, including volcanoes, mountains, craters, and lava flows, suggests that the

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http://www.space.com/ 64-inside-the-planetvenus-infographic.html http://www.universetod ay.com/36884/origin-ofvenus/ http://www.windows2u niverse.org/venus/interi or.html