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VENUS
By : Brenda Johnson
VENUS’S SYMBOL
HOW IT GOT IT’S NAME
Venus was named after the roman goddess of love
(in greek Aphrodite)
DISCOVERY
Venus was discovered by Copernicus when he
developed his model of the solar system and that’s
when both Venus and Earth became planets. Venus
was dicovered in 1633.
DISTANCES
Order from the sun- 2nd planet from the sun
Distance from the sun in km- 108.1 km
Distance from earth in km- 261 million km
VENUS’S MEASUREMENTS
Mass- 4.867e24kg
Volume- 928,415,345,893,km3
Density- 5.20 g/cm8
Gravity- 8.87 m/s2
ORBIT AND ROTATION
It takes Venus about 225 Earth day to orbit the sun
and It takes Venus nearly 243 earth days to spin
once on its axis (243.02 earth days)
ATMOSPHERE
96% of Venus’s atmosphere is carbon dioxide with
most of the remainder being nitrogen. The
atmosphere contains little water and it is very thick .
TEMPERATURE
The average temperature of Venus is 460 degrees
celsius is way hotter than Earth’s temperatures.
COMPOSITION/ APPEARANCE
Venus is a rocky planet the internal composition is
the core, mantel, and crust. Venus looks like Earth in
size and composition. It has no ring and no moons. It
has thick gas clouds but the planet itself is rocky and
soild.
WEATHER
The weather is more than 460 degrees celsius.
RINGS
Venus has no rings
MOONS
Venus has no moons
WATER
The only water on Venus is at a tiny amount
(0.002%) of water vapor in the atmosphere.
HUMAN TRAVELED TO VENUS…..
If a human travels to Venus you wouldn’t be able to
breathe because of the atmosphere so if you went to
Venus you would die.
SOMETHING SPECIAL
A year on Venus is shorter than it’s day.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.bobthealien.co.uk/venusten.htm
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planetselector.cfm?Ob
ject=
Venus
http://distancefrom.facts.co/earthtovenus/distanceb
etweenearthandvenus.
php
BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.windows2universe.org/venus/statistics.
html
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/43-What-is-t
he-atmosphere-of-Venus-like
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