Our Solar System's Planets: Venus
If any place in the Solar System is HELL - it is Venus.
The planet Venus is 67 million miles (102 million kilometers) from the star Sol (the sun), and has a revolution period of 225 Earth days. Its rotation period is retrograde, and is so slow that one complete rotation period takes 243 days, which makes its day longer than its year.
At 867 degrees Fahrenheit (463 Celsius) at the surface, the temperature is hot enough to melt lead, tin, zinc, cadmium, bismuth and tellurium, along with lesser known metals like gallium, which melts at a little above room temperature. Venus is not a place conducive to life as we know it, with a surface pressure of 92 bar and an atmosphere of 95.5% carbon dioxide, 3.5% nitrogen and 1% trace gases such as argon.
Venus is similar in size to the Earth, with a diameter of 12,104 kilometers (7,521 miles) with a mass equivalent to 82% of the Earth.
Here is a video of our "sister planet" Venus - or as I think of Venus: "Earth gone horribly wrong"...
The planet Venus is 67 million miles (102 million kilometers) from the star Sol (the sun), and has a revolution period of 225 Earth days. Its rotation period is retrograde, and is so slow that one complete rotation period takes 243 days, which makes its day longer than its year.
At 867 degrees Fahrenheit (463 Celsius) at the surface, the temperature is hot enough to melt lead, tin, zinc, cadmium, bismuth and tellurium, along with lesser known metals like gallium, which melts at a little above room temperature. Venus is not a place conducive to life as we know it, with a surface pressure of 92 bar and an atmosphere of 95.5% carbon dioxide, 3.5% nitrogen and 1% trace gases such as argon.
Venus is similar in size to the Earth, with a diameter of 12,104 kilometers (7,521 miles) with a mass equivalent to 82% of the Earth.
Here is a video of our "sister planet" Venus - or as I think of Venus: "Earth gone horribly wrong"...
