Venus

Also known as ♀, Planet Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun. Similar in size and mass to Earth, Venus has no liquid water, and its atmosphere is far thicker and denser than that of any other rocky body in the Solar System. The atmosphere is composed mostly of carbon dioxide and has a thick cloud layer of sulfuric acid that spans the whole planet. At the mean surface level, the atmosphere reaches a temperature of and a pressure 92 times greater than Earth's at sea level, turning the lowest layer of the atmosphere into a supercritical fluid. From Earth, Venus is visible as a star-like point of light, appearing brig

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Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is similar in size and mass to Earth, but has no liquid water and an extremely thick atmosphere made mostly of carbon dioxide with clouds of sulfuric acid. It matters because studying Venus helps us understand how planetary atmospheres work and how dramatically different conditions can be on worlds similar in size to our own, with surface temperatures and pressures far more extreme than anything on Earth.

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Key facts

Planet.name: Venus
Planet.image: Venus 2 Approach Image.jpg
Planet.symbol: 24px|♀|class=skin-invert
Planet.caption: Image of Venus, as captured by MESSENGER. In natural color Venus is a featureless sphere. A cloud layer permanently obscures the surface.
Planet.background: LightSalmon
Planet.epoch: J2000
Planet.eccentricity: 0.006772
Planet.synodic_period: 583.92 days
Planet.avg_speed: 35.02km/s
Planet.asc_node: 76.680°
Planet.arg_peri: 54.884°
Planet.mean_anomaly: 50.115°
Planet.satellites: None
Planet.allsatellites: yes
Planet.flattening: 0
Planet.rotation: (retrograde) 1 Venus solar day
Planet.sidereal_day: (retrograde)
Planet.axial_tilt: 2.64° (for retrograde rotation)177.36° (to orbit)

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Research

4,214 papers

Biomimetic Venus Flytrap Structures Using Smart Composites: A Review.ReviewMaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Wang B, Hou Y, Zhong S et al.DOI: 10.3390/ma16206702
Does the Venus de Milo have a Spinal Deformity?ReviewCureus · 2018Andrew K, Iwanaga J, Loukas M et al.DOI: 10.7759/cureus.3219
Destination Venus.Nature · 2016DOI: 10.1038/532148a
Life on Venus?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Limaye SSDOI: 10.3390/life15050717
Microbial transfers from Venus to Earth.ReviewAdvances in genetics · 2020Wickramasinghe NC, Slijepcevic PDOI: 10.1016/bs.adgen.2020.06.004
Venus, an Astrobiology Target.Astrobiology · 2021Limaye SS, Mogul R, Baines KH et al.DOI: 10.1089/ast.2020.2268
Artificial Venus Flytraps: A Research Review and Outlook on Their Importance for Novel Bioinspired Materials Systems.ReviewFrontiers in robotics and AI · 2020Esser FJ, Auth P, Speck TDOI: 10.3389/frobt.2020.00075
Synergies Between Venus & Exoplanetary Observations: Venus and Its Extrasolar Siblings.ReviewSpace science reviews · 2023Way MJ, Ostberg C, Foley BJ et al.DOI: 10.1007/s11214-023-00953-3

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Described at

Why is Venus so bright? | Live Science

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Wikidata facts

Demonym: Venusano
Area: 460230000
Distance from Earth: 108000000
Diameter: 12103.6
Radius: 6051.8
Mass: 4867.5
Orbital period: 19414148
Image: PIA23791-Venus-RealAndEnhancedContrastViews-20200608 (cropped).jpg

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Commons category: Venus (planet)
Commons gallery: Venus
orbital eccentricity: 0.0068
flattening: 0
semi-major axis of an orbit: 0.723332
orbital inclination: 2.19
argument of periapsis: 131.60246718
longitude of ascending node: 76.67984255
albedo: 0.59
synodic period: 583.92
periapsis: 107476259
apoapsis: 108942109
apparent magnitude: -4.8
surface gravity: 8.9
density: 5.243
mean anomaly: 50.115
volume as quantity: 928430000000
temperature: 474
angular diameter: 66
right ascension: 272.76
declination: 67.16
Unicode character: ♀
Stack Exchange tag: astronomy.stackexchange.com/tags/venus
IPA transcription: ˈveːnʊs
rotation period: -5832.5
effective temperature: 226.6
described at URL: www.livescience.com/space/venus/why-is-venus-so-bright

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Contents

Physical characteristics
Natural history
Formation
Future
Geography
Volcanism
Craters
Internal structure
Magnetic field and core
Atmosphere and climate
Orbit and rotation
Orbit in respect to Earth
Observability
Phases
Daylight apparitions
Transits
Ashen light
Observation and exploration history
Early observation
Venus and early modern astronomy
Early 20th century advances
First missions to Venus
Renewed exploration
Active and planned missions
Objectives
Crewed mission concepts
Possible atmospheric habitation
Possibility of life
Planetary protection
In culture
Modern culture
Symbols
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
Cartographic resources

The orbits of Venus and Earth make the two planets approach each other in synodic periods of 1.6 years. In the course of this, Venus comes closer to Earth than any other planet. In interplanetary spaceflight from Earth, Venus is frequently used as a waypoint for gravity assists, offering a faster and more economical route. Venus has no moons and a very slow retrograde rotation about its axis, a result of competing forces of solar tidal locking and differential heating of Venus's massive atmosphere. As a result, a Venusian day is 116.75 Earth days long, about half a Venusian solar year, which is 224.7 Earth days long.