Name: ________________________________________ Date: _____________________ Period: ______
Solar System Exploration: Venus
Go to : http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus
Overview Tab:
1. Venus is the _____________________ planet in our solar system -- only slightly Smaller than …
2. It is the _____________________ planet to the sun at a distance of …..
3. One day on Venus (the time it takes for Venus to rotate or spin once) takes ______Earth days. Venus
makes a complete orbit around the sun (a year in Venus time) in just ______ Earth days.
4. Venus is a rocky planet, also known as a _____________________ planet. Venus has a solid surface,
much like ….
5. Venus’s atmosphere, or exosphere, is composed mostly of …..
What created Venus’s atmosphere?
6. How many moons does Venus have?
7. Does Venus have any rings?
8. What spacecraft have visited Venus, and when did they visit?
9. How hot and how cold does it get on Venus? Do we think there is life on Venus?
10. Standing on Venus 's surface at its closest point to the sun, Could you see the sun and why?
Read More Tab:
1. What is unique about an observation of Venus from the Earth? When can it be observed?
2. How did Venus get its atmosphere?
3. How does Venus’s magnetic field compare to Earth’s?
Name: ________________________________________ Date: _____________________ Period: ______
Solar System Exploration: Venus
Facts and Figures Tab (use metric figures)
Discovered By
Date of Discovery
Orbit Size Around Sun
(semi-major axis)
Perihelion (closest)
Aphelion (farthest)
Sidereal Orbit Period
(Length of Year)
Orbit Circumference
Average Orbit Velocity
Orbit Eccentricity
Orbit Inclination
Equatorial Inclination to
Orbit
Mean Radius
Equatorial
Circumference
Volume
Mass
Density
Surface Area
Surface Gravity
Escape Velocity
Sidereal Rotation Period