Characteristics
Planet Features
Orbit and Rotation
Observation
Exploration
100
Venus, the Roman Goddess of love and beauty
What God is Venus named after?
100
an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid
What is Venus's surface covered with?
100
about 108 million km
Venus orbits the sun at an average of?
100
yes
Is Venus brighter than any other star in our solar system?
100
Venera 1
What was the first space probe to visit to Venus?
200
2nd
How many planets away from the sun is Venus?
200
no
Does Venus have a carbon cycle?
200
circular shape
What shape is Venus?
200
Earth every 584 days as it orbits the Sun
When does Venus overtake Earth?
200
no
Was the first space probe to visit Venus successful?
300
12,092 km (only 650 km less than the Earth's
What is the diameter of Venus?
300
96.5% carbon dioxide, with most of the remaining 3.5% being nitrogen
What is Venus composed of?
300
rotates at 6.5 km/h
At what speed does Venus rotate?
300
on an incline
What is special about Venus's orbit?
300
seven days
When was contact lost during the first mission?
400
to its dense carbon dioxide atmosphere
Why does Venus's surface differ from Earth?
400
92 times
What is the atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is times that of the Earth
400
chaotic changes
What type of spin changes does Venus have?
400
0
How many moons does Venus have?
400
Mariner 1
What was the first probe that the United States used to send to Venus?
500
Terrestrial planet
What type of planet is Venus?
500
Earth's sister planet
What is Venus sometimes called?
500
clockwise
What direction does Venus rotate in?
500
-4.9
What is its apparent magnitude?
500
detect estimates of its mass and of the astronomical unit, but was unable to detect either a magnetic field or radiation belts
Mariner 2 was able to detect what?
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