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Venus Important Information:
Venus can be so bright in the night sky that it can cast shadows The color of Venus can be seen as a creamy yellow because of its atomosphere but the land is either reddish brown or a dark purple. The orbital eccentricity is 0.007 Venus has a very dense cloud coverage it has prevented scientists from researching Venus' surface Scientists don't have much information about Venus' planet composition but they believe that it has a core of metal, a mantle of liquid rock, and a outer crust of rock, very similar to Earth.
 * Venus is Earth's twin, this is because the two planets are very similar in size. The diameter of Venus is 7,520 miles compared to Earth it is 400 miles smaller.
 * Venus is the brighter than any other planet or star, it is the first planet that can be seen in western evening sky but it can be last in the eastern morning sky.
 * Venus was named by Roman astrologists after the godess of love Venus, this caused its nickname the love planet.
 * ====== Venus is the second closest planet to the sun after Mecury, it is 67.2 million miles from the sun. Earth in comparison is 93 million miles away from the sun. ======
 * ====== Venus travels around the sun in a circular orbit,it takes Venus 225 days to go around the Sun once. ======
 * ====== 4,868,500,000,000,000,000,000, is the mass of Venus it's volume is 928,400,000,000 km3 ======
 * ====== Venus does not have any moons, this could be a gravitational effect ======
 * Venus is an unusual planet becuase it rotates around the Sun backwards unlike all of the other planets.
 * Diameter: 12,100 km. It is about 1040km smaller in diameter than Earth.
 * Temperature: Ranges from 900F+/- 50F (about 500°C +/- 32°C) at the surface.
 * Distance from Earth: At its closest, Venus is 41,840,000 km away
 * Atmosphere: Carbon dioxide (95%), 5% nitrogen, sulfuric acid, and traces of other elements
 * Surface: A rocky, dusty, waterless expanse of mountains, canyons, and plains, with a 200-mile river of hardened lava
 * Rotation of its axis: 243 Earth days (1 Venusian Day)
 * Magnetic Field: No
 * The atmospheric pressure on the surface of Venus is that 90 times the pressure on Earth.
 * The surface of Venus is very dry with flat plains, highland regions, and depressions.
 * The way venus tilts on its axis is 177.36 degree
 * On Venus the seasons are shorter and much different from Earth, Winter starts in July and Summer starts in April.
 * Above the clouds there is a high-speed "jet stream" which blows from west to east at about 300-400 km/h.

Russell, Christopher T. "Venus." World Book Student. World Book, 2010. Web. 1 Dec. 2010.

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