General Information
The 2nd planet from the sun, and the hottest as well.
What is Venus?
While most planets rotate counterclockwise, the same they orbit the sun. Venus rotates clockwise, making the run rise from here.
What is the west?
Venus' orbit around the sun is nearly this.
What is circular?
The spacecraft that took the first pictures of Venus.
What is the Venera 9?
The planet Venus is most similar to in our Solar System.
What is Earth?
Although it's very similar to Earth in size, mass, and composition, Venus has no this and the reason for this is still theorized over.
What is a magnetic field?
When Galileo recorded Venusian phases, he disproved the Ptolemaic system that believed venus and other planets orbited this planet.
What is the Earth?
The Magellan Mission found that at least 85 percent of the surface was covered by lava flows in this decade.
What is the 1990s?
The man who first recorded the phases of Venus.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Surface temperature on Venus can rise as high as this in Kelvin. (890 in Fahrenheit)
What is 750 Kelvin?
At aphelion, Venus is this away from sun.
What is furthest?
The transit of Venus happens once a century in pairs that are eight years apart. The pair of the 21st century happened in these two years.
What is 2004 and 2012?
Venus is named after the roman goddess of the same name. She is the goddess of this.
What is love?
The types of radiation used to observe Venus as the clouds obscure optical light.
What are radio and microwave radiation?
The name of the system where Venus and all other planets orbit the sun.
What is the Copernican system?
The DAVINCI spacecraft will be the first in the 21st century to go through Venus’ atmosphere and descend down to its surface after its scheduled launch in this decade.
What is the 2030s?
What are its reflective atmosphere and closeness to Earth?
The rotation rate of Venus.
What is 243.0212 Days?
The time it takes for Venus to orbit the sun.
What is 224.701 days?
The next transit of Venus won't be until the next century, specifically this year.
What is 2117?