By Shannon Stewart, Caitlin McIntyre and Amy Harvey Venus was the roman goddess of love and beauty. In Greek her name was Aphrodite. Venus has a thick cloud cover, so it makes it impossible to see the surface also traps most of the suns heat. This extra heat gives Venus the hottest temperature of all the planets. Its like earth because it has lots of volcanoes and mountain. The only difference is the temperature in Venus, nobody could live on it! Venus is the Earths Sister. Venus is called the Evening Star. Its called that because it looks so bright to us from Earth. Venus takes about 225 days to travel around the sun. The distance from Venus to the sun is 108.2 in km and 67.2 in miles. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?