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Venus
Venus is the planet that comes closest to the earth 42,000,000 km. it is almost the same size as the earth, yet the two planets are completely different! Venus rotates very slowly in the opposite direction from earth, once every 243 earth days. apart from the moon, Venus is by far the most brightest object in the night sky. The temperature of the surface is 480°C!!! The atmospheric pressure is nearly 100 times than that on earth, and is made up of mainly carbon dioxide. The heavy atmosphere lets in solar energy to heat up the surface but then traps the heat so that's why Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system! It is so hot that it could melt lead! Venus is 6,052 km wide which is almost the same size of the earth! Venus does not have any moons like mercury, and it rains concentrated sulphuric acid that would dissolve us if we landed there!!! There were once oceans on Venus but these have long since boiled away due to the great heat on the surface!! In it's early days Venus was just like earth it had oceans and may even held life, but as it has so much carbon dioxide in it's atmosphere, all the oceans have gone so would any life! |
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