VENUS

Venus is the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest.


The planet is named Venus, the Roman goddess of Love.


To the Teutonic peoples, the planet was known as Frig, the goddess wife of Woden. Friday (Frigdaeg) is named for her.


Venus is about the same size as Earth.


Venus rotates in a retrograde (backward) direction.
At it's closet, Venus is only 42 million kilometres (26 million miles) from Earth.


Venus has a thick atmosphere of Carbon Dioxide. Atmospheric pressure at the surface is 90 times that of Earth.


Because Venus is nearer the Sun than Earth and has a very thick atmosphere, the surface temperature is extremely high, as much as 475 degrees Celsius (900 degrees Farenheit).

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