1. Venus
By: Michael Chapman

2. Venus’s Symbol/Name Venus’s got its name after the Roman
Goddess of Love (Greek – Aphrodite)

3. Discovery of Venus
Who: It’s likely ancient people thousands of years ago knew about it.
When: Unknown
How: Ancient people saw Venus in the sky

4. Planet Measurements Mass of Venus- 4.8673 * 1024 kg
Volume x 1011 km3
Density g/cm3

5. Composition of Atmosphere of Venus
The atmosphere of Venus is made up almost completely of carbon dioxide. Nitrogen exists in small doses, as do clouds of sulfuric acid.
The air of Venus is so dense that small traces of nitrogen are four times the amount found on earth

6. Distances Venus is the second closest to the sun
Venus is 108 million Km from the Sun
The are many different numbers for Venus’s distance from earth, but the closest it can be is 38 Kilometers

7. Orbit and Rotation of Venus
It takes Venus 225 Earths days to Orbit the sun
It takes 243 days for Venus to rotate on its own axis

8. Temperature on Venus Venus is 480°C (900°F)
Compared to Earth Venus is a lot hotter than Earth
Picture of Venus using Radar pictures

9. Composition/Appearance of Venus
Venus is very rocky on its outer layer, and on the internal layer it is very dense
Venus is an orangey color, when scientist don’t use the right equipment you can only see clouds that are covering Venus, so you can’t see it.

10. Things Venus doesn’t have
Venus doesn’t have any Rings, or any water
Venus also has no moons

11. If a Human Traveled to Venus
If someone went to Venus that person would burn, get squashed because of the lack of gravity, and suffer from lack of oxygen

12. Cool Facts about Venus There are many lava flows on Venus
There are also many Volcanoes

13. Bibliography http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm