Venus: Solar System

The person who delivered an ancient sculpture knew that the sculpture was a Paleolithic Venus from Europe, 25,000-28,000 BCE and not a Sumerian sculpture. The sculpture was made out of ivory and is approximately 6 inches tall.

Venus is the next terrestrial planet and it is only slightly smaller than Earth and is the second planet from the sun. One day on Venus is longer than a year due to its slow rotation. It takes 243 Earth days to complete one rotation and rotates in the opposite direction of all other planets except Uranus, and is roughly 67 million miles from the sun. Venus much like Mercury has no moons to speak of and is often referred to as the morning star and the evening star as it is also one of the 5 planets visible to the naked eye and it is the 3rd brightest object in our sky besides the moon and sun. It is the same with the discovery of mercury it has been visible but nobody knew what it was until Copernicus unveiled

The Venus of Willendorf, also known as the Woman of Willendorf, stands 11 cm. high and is thought to have been carved from 22,000 to 21,000 B.C. It was discovered in 1908 by Josef

Would you rather instantly be crushed, vaporized, and asphyxiated at the same time, or wear a spacesuit? Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and is 141.6 million miles away from it. It has two moons and they are called Phobos and Deimos. Venus is the second planet from the sun and is 67.24 million miles from it. Mars is better than Venus because it is more habitable.

Since the BC’s, Venus has been recorded and seen. Before there was an official name for the planet it was called the Morning and Night star because the planet was shining brightly in the sky. The first person to really examine Venus thoroughly and mark visible features was in 1610 by Galileo, an italian scientist. The planet Venus was named after the Roman god of love and beauty, Aphrodite.

Venus, being named after the Roman goddess of beauty and love has many similarities to Earth. However being that the planets surface is covered by volcanic planes is very interesting. Being our "sister" planet Venus is believed to have had large reserves of water, however they no longer remain. Venus is the third brightest object in our sky, right after the Sun and our Moon. Considering 80% of its surface is is volcanic plains, as mentioned before, most of those volcanoes are inactive now. It is said however that Venus shows signs of once having intense volcanic action. Venus would be a fun place to explore if its climate was still similar to ours. Runaway greenhouses gas effects permanently impacted the climate of Venus and now the temperatures

Venus choked in smog, a crushing atmosphere of carbon dioxide. Venus, shaped by volcanoes. Venus, where day and night it’s always 480 degrees Celsius yet no Sun ever penetrates these poisonous skies. Venus is a puzzle, it rotates just once in 243 days, yet clouds race around the planet in four. And, with a diameter of more than 12.000 kilometres. Venus is almost the size of Earth, but few twins are so different. Once, Venus may have been like Earth with oceans, continents and clear blue skies.

Venus has been known as Earth’s “sister planet” due to the similarities they share. Although Venus has a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead, the atmosphere is dense enough to allow dirigible airships, filled with breathable air from Earth, to float in Venus’s atmosphere at 31 miles above the surface. According to NASA,

Unlike our atmosphere, Venus is a little different. It has a “greenhouse effect” that turns any living thing straight into ash. “Earth has hosted plate tectonics and a global magnetic field for billions of years, sustaining water oceans and allowing life to flourish. A thick atmosphere chiefly composed of carbon dioxide, in contrast, drives a greenhouse effect on Venus that would instantly reduce any terrestrial organism to ash.”-(O'Rourke, Joseph Ghilarducci). “Globally, more than 80 percent of the surface deviates less than 1 km (0.6 mile) from the mean radius. At several locations on the plains are broad, gently sloping topographic depressions, or lowlands, that may reach several thousand kilometres across; they include Atalanta Planitia,

Venus is very similar to Earth in terms of size and structure. Its atmosphere is thoroughly inhospitable however due to a runaway greenhouse effect.

The Soviet Union was the only country to actually land on the surface of Venus and were the ones to closely examine the atmospheric structure and properties along with the soil components. Though there were some technological failures along the way, their ability to persist paid off in discovering new scientific information from Earth’s sister

The planet Venus is a terrestrial planet, meaning it has a rocky and solid surface. The surface is covered in thousands of volcanoes, sizing from very small to gigantic sized ones. The volcanoes are all over the planet, and in no apparent patterns, meaning there isn't tectonic plate activity like we have on Earth. Interestingly, these volcanoes aren't as explosive as they would be on Earth, presumably due to the thickness of the atmosphere of Venus. Instead the volcanoes on Venus seemed to just have liquid lava flows. While it is possible that most of the volcanoes are either dead or dormant, there may be some active volcanic activity on Venus. Among the surface volcanoes of Venus are very few impact craters from meteors. This is because thickness

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli is a Renaissance painting that depicts Venus being born out of sea foam onto a sea shell and other gods and goddesses are bringing her clothing. We can see that this is a Renaissance painting because it is realistic. It is realistic because there is light, depth, perspective, expression throughout the piece. Light is shown through the sun. Depth is also shown through shadows on Venus’s face, shadows on the other people’s faces, and shadows in the background. There are shadows on the shell, the sky, the sea, the ground, and the trees. Perspective is shown because of how Venus is front and center in the painting and how the other gods and goddesses around her and how there are things in the background

Venus is considered Earth's sister planet, it has the same size, gravity level, composition and other characteristics. 80 percent of it's surface is covered in volcanic plains,

This makes the Venusian day equal to 117 earth days. It is thought that this slow rotation may be the reason why Venus has no magnetic field.