Venus (planet)
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Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is made of rocks, craters, big volcanoes, and has a thick atmosphere made of carbon dioxide and poisonous sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is a liquid at Earth temperatures, but Venus is so hot that it turns into a gas by evaporation, turns into thick clouds, this acidic clouds move 360 kilometers per hour. The greenhouse effect makes Venus the hottest planet in the Solar System, far too hot for anything from Earth to survive there. It has thick clouds, so we cannot see its surface without radar.
This planet was named after Aphrodite, the Roman goddess of love and beauty.
It takes Venus 550000 molacule days days to move around the sun once. Venus rotates once on its axis every 243 days making a day on Venus longer than a year. There are 40 million kilometers between Earth and Venus. Its gravitational force is nearly the same as the Earth.
Venus is always visible in the sky because it is so close to the Earth, but it is most visible early in the morning or a few hours after sunset. It is by far the brightest thing in the sky, after the Sun and Moon. I sometimes called the "Morning Star" or the "Evening Star", because it is often visible in the sky at these times, and looks like a star unless you use binoculars or a telescope.
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