Venus Solar System

Introduction venus is the second planet from the sun and our closest planetary neighbor.

Venus solar system.

Named after the goddess of love and beauty venus has become nearly synonymous with woman in popular culture as referenced by the famous relationship guide men are from mars women are from venus. Before we knew about what lay beneath. And like uranus it turns on its axis in the opposite direction to the rest of our celestial family. Venus differs from all other bodies in the solar system because it rotates from east to west.

Venus has been called earth s twin because of the similarities in their masses sizes and densities and their similar relative locations in the solar system. It is in a sense upside down. Of the objects that orbit the sun directly the largest are the eight planets with the remainder being smaller objects the dwarf planets and small solar system bodies of the objects that orbit the sun indirectly the moons two are larger than the smallest planet. Its thick atmosphere traps heat in a runaway greenhouse effect making it the hottest planet in our solar system with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead.

Venus is one of the four terrestrial planets in the solar system meaning that it is a rocky body like earth. Another odd fact about this planet is that its day is longer than its year. It is similar to earth in size and mass and is often described as earth s sister or twin. Scientists have discovered the molecule elsewhere in the solar system in the cores of the planets jupiter and saturn.

Similar in structure and size to earth venus spins slowly in the opposite direction from most planets. For more planetary science read about a recent report that claims the moon is rusting and then check out this story about 139 minor planets at the edge of our solar system. The solar system is the gravitationally bound system of the sun and the objects that orbit it either directly or indirectly. The search for life from venus to the outer solar system while the discovery of the normally microbe produced phosphine on our toxic neighbour is astonishing other candidates for life are.

As a solar system locale venus was a popular destination for early 20th century science fiction writers. The diameter of venus is 12 103 6 km 7 520 8 mi only 638 4 km 396 7 mi less than earth s and its mass is 81 5 of earth s. Because they presumably formed in the solar nebula from the same kind of rocky planetary building blocks they also likely have similar overall chemical compositions early telescopic observations of the planet revealed a perpetual veil.