Vocabulary
What is a crescent?
Trapped by the clouds of Venus.
What is heat?
The opposite direction of most other planets.
What is Venus's rotation?
The moon.
What is the brightest object in the night sky?
88 Earth days
What is the length of a year on Mercury?
Rock that is so hot it has melted and comes out of a volcano.
What is lava?
Unescaped heat on Venus creates this density.
What is atmosphere?
Shorter than a day on Venus.
What is a year?
Venus shines so brilliantly after sunset or before sunrise.
Why is Venus called the Morning Star or Evening Star?
243 Earth days
What is the length of a day on Venus?
Lava that is still inside the volcano.
What is molten rock?
The same at night as it is during the day, even though a side of Venus is facing away from the sun.
What is temperature?
225 Earth days
What is the time it takes Venus to orbit around the sun?
A planet covered in rocks like Venus.
What is a terrestrial planet?
26
How many spacecraft the US has sent to Venus?
The first NASA spacecraft to visit Venus in 1962.
What is Mariner 2?
The oxidant that creates Venus's cloud cover.
What is sulfuric acid?
Venus, the goddess of love and beauty
What did the Romans/ancient astronomers name the planet after?
Venus is the same size as Earth and located in the same region of space.
Why is Venus called Earth's twin? (or similar to Earth)
Venera 13
What Soviet spacecraft visited Venus and took color photographs?
Sends out signals and waits for those signals to bounce off of something and come back.
What is radar?
How fast the clouds move across the sky of Venus.
What is 220 mph?
The Big Bang Theory
What does Venus's rotation create a proof against?
Colors everything
What is the effect of the atmosphere of Venus?
The average temperature on Venus
What is 870 degrees?