Fun Facts Venus is made of rocks. It is covered with lava. Venus, the hottest planet, gets to a temperature of 864 degrees. Venus has thousands of volcanoes. Venus is 7,521 miles large. Earth is 7,926 miles. Venus is called Earth’s twin because it is almost the same size as Earth. Some people called Venus the morning star because you could see it with a telescope in the morning. Venus is made of Iron core. Information found http://www.nasa.gov/audience/ forstudents/index.html Venus http://www.planetsforkids.org/ http:// science.nationalgeographic.com/ science/space/solar-syste m/ Mercury and Venus by Al Smuskiewicz Solar system by Gregory Vogt Created by Cristian and Jacob Where in space Physical Features Venus is the brightest planet in the solar system. Venus has volcanoes. In 1998 they sent a satellite to take pictures of Venus and in 1994 the machine got sucked in the atmosphere. The atmosphere had poisonous gases that destroyed the satellite. Venus is covered with thick clouds. Come to Venus to see the volcanoes. On Venus 265 days is a year. Venus the 2nd planet in the solar system. Venus is closer to Mercury. Humans People can’t live on Venus because it is very hot. There’s volcanoes on Venus, so no one knows if the volcanoes erupt. The poisonous gas destroyed the satellite, so it would kill a person.