Venus

__**Venus**__ Venus  is the second nearest planet  to the Sun , orbiting around about 224.7 Earth  days. It is the brightest natural thing in the night sky, except for the Moon . Venus is a  smaller planet from Earth,   it never seems to go that far from the Sun and also, Venus reaches its full brightness shortly before sunrise or sunset. . Venus is know as a earthly planet , it is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" because, for the two are similar in size, gravityand bulk composition. Venus is covered with an opaque layer of highly reflective <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">clouds <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">of <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">sulfuric acid  <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">, preventing its surface from being seen from space in <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">visible light  <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">. Venus has the thickest atmosphere <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN"> of all the terrestrial planets, containing mostly of <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">carbon dioxide <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">. <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Venus has become so hot that the earth-like oceans from the young Venus is believed that it has been totally evaporated from the heat, leaving a dusty dry desert cape with many slab-like rocks. The <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">atmospheric pressure <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN"> on Venus surface is 92 times that of the Earth. <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Venus shows proof of extensive <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">volcanism <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">, and the <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">sulfur  <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN"> in the atmosphere has been taken by some scientists to show that there has been some recent volcanism. Another thing about Venus is, there are a surprisingly low number of <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">impact craters <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">. This shows that the surface is general young, it is about half a billion years old.

__**Facts about Venus**__ Venus diameter is: 12,103.6km

Distance from sun is: 108,208,930km

Venus volume is: 928,400,000,000km

Venus mass is: 4,868,500,000,000,000,000,000,000kg