Venus

Venus is the second planet in order from the Sun and the Earth closest neighbor. In the night sky, it looks like a dazzling point (only the Sun and Moon are brighter). Roughly ninety percent of Venus's surface is a layer of solidified basaltic lava, rarely disrupted by meteor craters.



Venus surface is covered with opaque clouds at a height from 50 to 70 km, which contain corrosive substances - sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid. The fast-rotating atmosphere is composed primarily of carbon dioxide with an admixture of nitrogen, oxygen and water vapor, which combine to form a powerful greenhouse effect. Consequently, the temperature on the surface of Venus reaches 470 ° C and the pressure at the surface exceeds the pressure at terrestrial sea level about 90 times.



Venus rotates quite slowly around its axis of rotation - once in every 243.2 Earth days, while it orbits around the Sun in 224.7 days. Therefore the day on Venus is longer than its one year. In addition, Venus is the only planet in the Solar system that rotates around the axis of rotation against the direction in which it orbits around the Sun. Venus is the second planet in order from the Sun and the Earth closest neighbor. In the night sky, it looks like a dazzling point (only the Sun and Moon are brighter). Roughly ninety percent of Venus's surface is a layer of solidified basaltic lava, rarely disrupted by meteor craters.



Venus surface is covered with opaque clouds at a height from 50 to 70 km, which contain corrosive substances - sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid. The fast-rotating atmosphere is composed primarily of carbon dioxide with an admixture of nitrogen, oxygen and water vapor, which combine to form a powerful greenhouse effect. Consequently, the temperature on the surface of Venus reaches 470 ° C and the pressure at the surface exceeds the pressure at terrestrial sea level about 90 times.



Venus rotates quite slowly around its axis of rotation ‒ once in every 243.2 Earth days, while it orbits around the Sun in 224.7 days. Therefore the day on Venus is longer than its one year. In addition, Venus is the only planet in the Solar system that rotates around the axis of rotation against the direction in which it orbits around the Sun.