The Venus planet facts

• Astronomers consider the planet Venus to be 4.5 billion years old.  
• The planet Venus has a diameter of 12104 km, which is almost as large as the Earth.  
• The atmosphere of Venus is always surrounded by dense gaseous clouds.  Therefore, if a person goes to this planet, the Sun or Earth will never be seen from its surface.
• It is said that the planet Venus was discovered by Babylonian astronomers in the 17th century. 
• According to scientists, Venus is composed of a central iron core, rocky mantle and silicate crust.

Also read :- The Australia Continent facts

• There is no crater on the surface of the planet Venus, because any asteroid or other object that enters its atmosphere is already destroyed due to its atmospheric pressure before hitting its surface.
• Venus is the nearest planet to Earth and is the brightest and hottest planet.
• The highest mountain of the planet Venus is 'Maxwell Montes' which has a height of 8.8 kilometers.
• It is called the evening star or the morning star, because it appears in the sky in the west in the evening and in the east in the morning.  
• It rotates clockwise unlike other planets.  
• It has no satellite.  
• It is called Earth's sister or Earth's twin planet, because in size and mass it is almost equal to Earth.  
• It completes the orbiter of the Sun in 225 days.  

Also read :- Abraham Lincoln 

• Venus is smaller in size than the Earth.  
• The Europeans worshiped this planet as the goddess of beauty.  
• Its rotation is opposite to all the planets in the east to west direction.  
• It has 97% carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, which is a greenhouse gas.  
• This planet has 70% ability to reflect sunlight.  For this reason, it is the brightest planet, whose shape is spherical.  
• No magnetic field is located on the planet Venus.  
• 85% of the planet's surface is formed from volcanic rocks.  
• The air pressure on this planet is 90 times higher than on Earth.  
• Its surface temperature is around 482 ° C.  
• In Roman mythology, this planet has been considered the goddess of love and beauty.  
• This planet is the brightest after the Sun and Moon.  
• There is neither ocean nor atmosphere on this planet.  
• In ancient times the Greeks and Romans considered the planet Venus not one, but two planets.  The Greeks called the morning star as 'Phasphorus' and the evening star as 'Hosporus'. The Romans called the morning star as 'Lucifer' and the evening star as 'Vesper'.But later Greek and Roman astronomers found that it is not two, but one planet.  
• Venus is the first planet named after a woman.  
• It takes about 6 minutes for sunlight to reach Venus.  
• Babylonian astronomers refer to the planet Venus as 'the bright queen of the sky'.  
• There are more than 1600 volcanoes on the planet Venus, which is the highest among all the planets in the solar system.