Venus

Venus is the second nearest planet to the Sun. Venus has got a pattern. The patterns are made out of clouds that goes around the planet in four days. Venus looks like a star at night. The planet is a little bit smaller than the earth and it has got nearly no air. It just has a little, little tiny bit of air. Its normal temperature is 454°C (850°F). That is far too hot for water to stay as liquid. We can not see the surface of Venus because it is hidden by the thick clouds that are probably made by thousands of volcanoes. Some may still be active. The Venus Transit of 08/06/04 lasted for six hours. The last transit of Venus before that was in 1882. Next transit: 06th June 2012 and after that transit you will have to wait for more than one century. After the 2012 transit: 11th December 2117 and 08th December 2125. Venus transits are very rare. There were only seven Venus transits since people used telescopes to look at the sky: 1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874, 1882 and 2004. Transits of Venus can only occur in June or December.

Venus is a hot and fiery planet, we can see that from this picture.

Facts:

Symbol:

Colour: Burning Red/Orange
Diameter: 12,104 KM (7,522 Miles) 0.95 Earth’s
Mass: 4,87x10^24 kilograms (0.81-0.82 x Earth’s)
Density: 5,243 kg/m^3
Minimum distance from the Sun: 108 million km (67 million miles)
Maximum distance from the Sun: 109 million km (68 million miles)
Minimum distance from Earth: 40 million km (25 million miles)
Roman and Greek Names: Venus and Aphrodite

Surface:

Time taken to spin once: 243 Days
Temperature: 454°C (850°F) Always
Time taken to go around the Sun once: 0.62 years (225 days)
Moon(s): 0 named, 0 coded & all together none.