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Venus
Galileo Galilee was
the first person to
see Venus as a
planet rather than a
bright star in the
sky.
The first
recorded transit
of Venus was in
1639.
Named Venus by Ancient Romans
Named Aphrodite by Ancient Greeks
Venus AKA Aphrodite was the Greek
A volcanoes on Goddess of Love and Beauty.
Venus is named
Venus was a huge part of the
In the Aztec religion
after the
Venus was the symbol Mayan religion because Venus
Goddess Sif
was associated with their chief
for the god
from the Norse
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli. god Quetzalcoatl and his
mythology.
incarnation Kulkulkan.
A Russian astronomer
On 1874 the U.S. congress
Mikhail V. Lomonosov
funded 177,000 dollars for
discovered that Venus had
research on Venus.
an atmosphere. During a
transit in June 5 1761.
History
Solar Facts of Venus
Tilt of axis
177-178
Venus is the second planet from the
degrees
sun and the nearest in size to earth.
A year on Mass =O.82*earth
Venus is Diameter 7,522 miles
226.3
The
Planetary
Symbol is
the female
symbol in
biology.
A day is 243
spinning
retrograde to
earth.
Minimum distance from the sun
67 million miles, maximum
distance from the sun 68
million miles.
Atmosphere and Surface of
Venus’s atmosphere is made up of
Venus
96.5%Carbon Dioxide,3.5%
Nitrogen,and less than 1%Sulfur
Dioxide,Argon,water
vapor,Carbon Monoxide,Helium,
and Neon.
Temperatures
reach to 900
degrees
Fahrenheit.
Distance from From earth it sometimes looks like
earth 25
a bright star.
Because of the
million miles.
atmosphere of Venus
There are over 1600
we are unable to see
Venus in
major volcanoes,
the surface from
Real
mountains, large
earth.
Color.
highland terrains,
and vast lava plains.
Interior and Surface of Venus
Venus Crust is estimated to
be 500 million years old.
Venus does not
have tectonic
plates causing
A process known as subduction is
slow
absent in small scale forms that
happen all the time, on Venus instead subduction.
it occurs in an enormous scale every
once in awhile long time, the exact
It can get as
time is unknown but it is know that it
cold as 220
hasn’t happened for the past 500
degrees
million years.
Celsius on
Venus.