- The atmosphere of Venus made up mainly of carbon dioxide.
- Venus is surrounded by clouds consisting of mercury, ferric chloride hydrocarbons and sulphuric acid. These clouds create the most corrosive acid rain found anywhere in our solar system.
- The clouds are so thick that little light even reaches the surface. The light that does reach the surface is converted to heat and can not escape the atmosphere making Venus the hottest planet
- The surface of Venus is often described as a "stormy desert" full of many craters and very active volcanoes.
- Venus features no liquid water.
- Venus is rotating in the opposite direction to the Sun, this is also know as a retrograde rotation. A possible reason might be a collision in the past with an asteroid or other object that caused the planet to alter its rotational path. It also differs from most other planets in our solar system by having no natural satellites.
- Venus is the second brightest object in the night sky. it is so bright it can be seen during daytime on a clear day
- The pressure felt by a human on the surface would be equivalent to that experienced deep beneath the sea on Earth.
- it is also known as the Morning Star and the Evening Star. arly civilisations thought Venus was two different bodies, called Phosphorus and Hesperus by the Greeks, and Lucifer and Vesper by the Romans. This is because when its orbit around the Sun overtakes Earth’s orbit, it changes from being visible after sunset to being visible before sunrise
- The dense clouds of sulphuric acid surrounding Venus make it impossible to view its surface from outside its atmosphere. It was only when radio mapping was developed in the 1960s that scientists were able to observe and measure the extreme temperatures and hostile environment. It is thought Venus did once have oceans but these evaporated as the planets temperature increased
- Due to its similar size and composition, Venus is sometimes referred to as the Earth’s “Sister Planet”
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