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    Venus - Wikipedia

    Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is a terrestrial planet and is the closest in mass and size to its orbital neighbour Earth. Venus is notable for having the densest atmosphere of the terrestrial planets, composed mostly of carbon dioxide with a thick, global sulfuric acid cloud cover. At the surface it has a … See more

    Venus is one of the four terrestrial planets in the Solar System, meaning that it is a rocky body like Earth. It is similar to Earth in size and mass and … See more

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    Venus orbits the Sun at an average distance of about 0.72 AU (108 million km; 67 million mi), and completes an orbit every 224.7 days. … See more

    To the naked eye, Venus appears as a white point of light brighter than any other planet or star (apart from the Sun). The planet's mean apparent magnitude is −4.14 with a standard … See more

    Speculation on the possibility of life on Venus's surface decreased significantly after the early 1960s when it became clear that conditions were … See more

    Venus is the place of the first interplanetary human presence, mediated through robotic missions, with the first successful landings on another planet and extraterrestrial body other than the Moon. Currently in orbit is Akatsuki, and other probes routinely use … See more

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    Venus has a dense atmosphere composed of 96.5% carbon dioxide, 3.5% nitrogen—both exist as supercritical fluids at the planet's surface with a density 6.5% that of water —and … See more

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    Venus is in Earth's sky bright enough to be visible without aid, making it one of the classical planets that human cultures have known and identified throughout history, particularly for being the third brightest object in Earth's sky … See more

     
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  2. Venus | Facts, Color, Rotation, Temperature, Size, & Surface

  3. Venus - NASA Science

    Learn about Venus, the second planet from the Sun and the hottest in our solar system. Find out how it compares to Earth, what makes it so extreme, and how we have explored it with spacecraft.

  4. All About Venus | NASA Space Place – NASA Science …

    3 days ago · Learn about Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system, with a thick atmosphere and clouds of sulfuric acid. Find out how Venus spins, rotates, and orbits the Sun, and see images of its surface and volcanoes.

  5. Venus

    Venus, the second planet from the sun, is the closest planet to Earth and one of the brightest objects we see in the sky. It is sometimes referred to as Earth's 'sister planet' because of their similar size, mass, composition, and proximity to the sun. It spins slowly in the opposite direction than most planets.
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    Radius: 3,760.41 miles
    Type: terrestrial
    Surface temperature: 863.6°F
    Gravity: 29.1 feet/s²
    Data from: NASA
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