What it’s made of: Mercury has a large core, estimated to be up to 75% of the planet’s size. The core is made up of liquid metal, predominantly iron, surrounded by a mantle of silica and a solid outer crust.
What group it’s belong to: Terrestrial
When was it discovered/named: Timocharis made the first recorded observation of Mercury 265 BC. Some other observations of Mercury include Zupus in 1639, who studied the planet’s orbit.
Origin of the name: As Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, thus the fastest planet to orbit it, Mercury was named after the Roman messenger god, Mercury. According to mythology, along with being the god of travellers, he had a winged hat and sandals, so he could fly.
Atmosphere: Mercury has almost no atmosphere.
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Beneath the layers of cloud, Venus has a relatively smooth, rocky surface.
What group it’s belong to: Terrestrial
When was it discovered/named: The Babylonians have the earliest recording of the observation of Venus, dating back to around 1581 BC.
Origin of the name: Venus was named after the roman goddess of love and beauty. This is most likely because it is the brightest planet in the night sky. In ancient Babylonia, Venus was known as Ishtar, the goddess of womanhood and love.
Atmosphere: Venus has a thick layer of Carbon Dioxide as it’s atmosphere, much hotter and denser than Earth’s. Venus’s atmosphere supports clouds made of sulphuric acid, making it impossible to optically observe the planet’s surface.
Interesting facts:
Venus has no moons.
Venus and Uranus rotate clockwise, the opposing direction of the other planets.
The surface of Venus is an estimated 3-4x older than earths, being around 300-400 million years old.
Venus is the closest planet to Earth.
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The climate of Venus may have been able to support life. Billions of years ago, Venus may have possessed large bodies of water. Due to the high temperatures, this water boiled off long
Venus is a planet that isn't talked about as much as any other planet but, have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on Venus? You can, it would just take some time.
The Planet Venus is named after the Roman Goddess of Love and Beauty. It is the second planet from the sun. Very similar in size and mass as the Earth. Some distinctive features of Venus are its rotation, Its brightness and its hot temperatures,
The air is not breathable by humans! Venus's atmosphere also contains traces of extra compounds and elements, such as neon, argon, carbon monoxide, and helium. Atmospheric pressure is over 90 times heavier than that of Earth; sheer crushing power. Clouds of sulfuric acid lay above a layer of carbon dioxide near the crust. These sulfuric clouds block most Muggle attempts to see Venus. On Venus, the climate changes all the time, from an extremely cold temperature to an extremely hot one. The temperature ranges from -364 to 870 degrees Fahrenheit. Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System, and yet it is Mercury that is the closest planet to the Sun, Venus being second in
For my vacation, my family has chosen to go to Venus. This our first year traveling outside of earth so we chose a planet close. Venus is covered with a thick layer of sulfuric acid which will be a blast to land into but on the inside Venus is solid. Venus shines super bright and has orangish yellow tint. The overall look of Venus is dreary and the gas covers the area with a goldish hue and everything looks like gunmetal. Venus is VERY hot, it temperature reaches to about 870 degrees Fahrenheit! On top of the scorching heat the Atmospheric pressure is bone crushing and highly dense.Venus is about 0.72 light years away from the Sun and blank light years from Earth. Venus is very much like earth and not very much like earth. Venus is about the same size as earth
However, it turns out that Mars is much more hospitable to life on its surface than Venus. Due to its runaway greenhouse effect, our sister planet is the hottest planet in our solar system. Temperatures on the Venusian surface can reach smoldering temperatures of nearly 900 degrees Fahrenheit, hot
The atmosphere on Venus is composed of mostly Carbon dioxide with small amounts of nitrogen and sulphuric acid. This composition causes a runaway greenhouse gas effect that makes the planet even hotter than Mercury, despite the fact that Mercury is much closer to the sun. The air on Venus is incredibly dense due to the Nitrogen content, which, whilst admittedly is only a small part of the atmospheric composition, is at least four times the amount on Earth. This Atmospheric composition therefore creates a thick layer of
There is also a layer of clouds made up of sulfuric acid that reflects over 90% of the sunlight that hits Venus. Since there is so much sunlight getting
The second closest planet, Venus, is name after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. In Greek mythology, this is Aphrodite. This planet got its name most likely to the fact that it is the brightest planet in the sky (the Sun and Moon are only the two things brighter and they are not planets).
There was much debate about what the name of the planet would be. Herschel wanted to name the planet after King George III. Others suggested that he named the planet after himself, since he was the one to discover it. Astronomers finally settled on naming it Uranus, after an ancient Greek God.
There are a few other reasons why Venus cannot sustain human life. One of them is because of a huge cloud that surrounds Venus. This cloud is made up of corrosive acid, which is due to the sulfur from volcanic eruptions on Venus. The second reason is because the atmosphere pressure on Venus is also ninety times stronger than it is on earth, which is strong enough to crush a car. The third and final reason we would not be able to live on Venus is because the atmosphere of Venus is nearly all Carbon Dioxide, which makes the temperatures over nine hundred degrees Fahrenheit.
Michael Way from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and his colleagues have applied the first three-dimensional climate model to early Venus in order to visualize the complexities of its atmosphere and to predict how Venus might have looked in its early existence. The model uses the same computer simulations used to predict climate changes on Earth in order to predict climate changes on early Venus. The team ran the model for Venus’s climate 2.9 billion years ago, and then again for 715 million years ago. Keeping Venus’s present-day topography and rotation speed intact, they discovered that the temperature of Venus 2.9 billion years ago could have been similar to Earth’s (around 11 degrees Celsius) and that the planet would have only
Due to runaway greenhouse effect that irrevocably changed the conditions on Venus, the climate of the planet can be called truly hellish: the temperature on Venus can go up to 870 degrees Fahrenheit and the pressure equals that of about a kilometer under Earth’s oceans. Thick sulfuric clouds downpour constant acid rains on the surface that are immediately evaporated. The winds at the surface are slow but they are carrying around considerable amount of dust and rocks. However the atmosphere of Venus is layered and at about 50-65 km above the surface the temperature, pressure and the atmosphere composition closely resembles that of the Earth and is practically “habitable”. That makes it a possible place for exploration and maybe even
In many ways Venus is found to be similar to Earth. However their similarities do not extend further than their physical properties, for instance, their atmospheres differ greatly from each other. Venus is said to have atmospheric pressure of 92.1 barometers (Adams, D. Et al., 1994 p.126) which it is evidently 92 times greater than Earth’s that is 1.01 barometers (Adams, D. Et al., 1994 p.126) at sea-level. In spite of this comparison to Earth’s atmospheric pressure, Venus owns an out of the ordinary atmospheric composition.
Venus is the 2nd planet from the Sun. Venus' reflective nature and close proximity to Earth are major factors in it's being one of the brightest objects in the sky after the Sun and Earth's moon. It is often referred to as
It is called this because it closely resembles the Earth's mass, density and diameter. The only thing different is that Venus " is shrouded in thick clouds that completely hide the surface of the planet " (Grolier, 1992). The surface temperature is also much warmer than that of Earth.