VENUS
By : Brenda Johnson
VENUS’S SYMBOL
HOW IT GOT IT’S NAME
 Venus was named after the roman goddess of love (in greek
Aphrodite)
DISCOVERY
 Venus was discovered by Copernicus when he developed his
model of the solar system and that’s when both Venus and Earth
became planets. Venus was dicovered in 1633.
DISTANCES
 Order from the sun- 2nd planet from the sun
 Distance from the sun in km- 108.1 km
 Distance from earth in km- 261 million km
VENUS’S MEASUREMENTS
 Mass- 4.867e24kg
 Volume- 928,415,345,893,km3
 Density- 5.20 g/cm8
 Gravity- 8.87 m/s2
ORBIT AND ROTATION
 It takes Venus about 225 Earth day to orbit the sun and It takes
Venus nearly 243 earth days to spin once on its axis (243.02 earth
days)
ATMOSPHERE
 96% of Venus’s atmosphere is carbon dioxide with most of the
remainder being nitrogen. The atmosphere contains little water and it
is very thick .
TEMPERATURE
 The average temperature of Venus is 460 degrees celsius is way
hotter than Earth’s temperatures.
COMPOSITION/
APPEARANCE
 Venus is a rocky planet the internal composition is the core,
mantel, and crust. Venus looks like Earth in size and composition. It
has no ring and no moons. It has thick gas clouds but the planet itself
is rocky and soild.
WEATHER
 The weather is more than 460 degrees celsius.
RINGS
 Venus has no rings
MOONS
 Venus has no moons
WATER
 The only water on Venus is at a tiny amount (0.002%) of water
vapor in the atmosphere.
HUMAN TRAVELED TO
VENUS…..
 If a human travels to Venus you wouldn’t be able to breathe
because of the atmosphere so if you went to Venus you would die.
SOMETHING SPECIAL
 A year on Venus is shorter than it’s day.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
 http://www.bobthealien.co.uk/venusten.htm
 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planetselector.cfm?Object=Venus
 http://distancefrom.facts.co/earthtovenus/distancebetweeneartha
ndvenus.php
BIBLIOGRAPHY
 http://www.windows2universe.org/venus/statistics.html
 http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/43-What-is-theatmosphere-of-Venus-like-