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More than 40 spacecraft have explored Venus. The ‘90s NASA Magellan mission mapped the planet's surface and Akatsuki (Japanese Space Probe) is currently orbiting Venus.

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Scientists believe that Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history

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Despite having a very slow rotational rate of the planet itself, the winds on Venus blow at hurricane force sending clouds around the planet in only 5 days

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Venus (like Mercury) doesn't actually have any moons that it has pulled into it's orbit. Scientists speculate that it did once have a moon, however is just spiraled away similar to how our moon is creeping steadily further and further away.

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Venus is 108,200,000km from the Sun, which is 0.7233 of Earth’s distance.

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The Soviet Union’s Venera 13 survived the intense heat and pressure of Venus’ surface for more than two hours, an impressive feat!

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Notice that it actually takes less time for Venus to orbit the sun than it does for it to rotate once around it's own axis. This is due to its retrograde motion, meaning it rotates east to west (backwards!).

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225 Earth days

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243 Earth days

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Due to the greenhouse effect of the carbon dioxide heavy atmosphere the average temperature is 482° C (900° F). Heat comes in from the sun but then is not allowed to escape making it even hotter than Mercury.

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The surface pressure on Venus is 92 times that of Earth!
Venus's gravitational pull is similar to Earth's at 8.87 m/s². This means that if you weigh 100lbs on Earth you would weigh 91lbs on Venus.

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Bright areas help to indicate elevation as well.

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Coronae are thought to have produced by mantle up welling and Archnoids are product of molten rock seeping through fractures.

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Volcanic flows produced long channels extending for as long as 7000km.

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High terrain appears very bright and scientists speculate this is due to an abundance of iron pyrite in the higher regions as it would be stable there.

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Several unique Venusian features include Coronea and Archnoids. These are large circular features surrounded with cliffs spanning up to hundreds of km.

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85% of the surface is covered in volcanic rock with more than 100,000 small volcanoes and over 100 large volcanoes dotting the surface.

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No oceans as liquid water does not exist on Venus. Surface planes are covered in vast lava flows and there mountain ranges and highlands.

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96% Carbon Dioxide, 3% Nitrogen, trace amounts of Sulfur Dioxide, Water Vapor, Carbon Monoxide, Argon *NO OXYGEN

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Venus is 1.1x smaller than Earth with a mass of .81476 that of Earth or 4.869e24Kg. It has an equatorial radius of 6051.8km (.94886 Earth's).