Venus is highly visible from Earth due to its reflective clouds. In the sky, Venus appears as a brilliant white object that is one of the brightest natural things in thenight sky. Its maximum magnitude, or apparent brightness, isclose to -5, according to NASA. (By comparison, the moon ...
NASA/Bill Dunford Venus also has a highly unusual orbit and rotation. It's one of two planets in our solar system—here's to you, Uranus!—to rotate "backwards" from east to west instead of from west to east. And with no axial tilt, there are also no seasons. Because Venus rotates...
Discover some of the most intriguing facts about Venus below! 1. Venus Was Once Earth-Like Using advanced climate models, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have theorized thatVenusmay have been more Earth-like for its first 2 billion years. With shallow oceans and potential land...
NASA has studied a mission concept called High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC), designed to lead to a program for the long-term exploration of Venus. The mission would use crewed airships to explore Venus’s atmosphere at an altitude of 50 km, where the pressure and temperature ar...
We have written many articles about Venus for Universe Today. Here are someinteresting facts about Venus, and here are somepictures of planet Venus. If you’d like more information on Venus, check outHubblesite’s News Releases about Venus, and here’s a link toNASA’s Solar System Explorat...
NASA Venus’s superrotation was found by observing the motion of dark streaks in its atmosphere. What these streaks are and why the superrotation hasn’t mixed them evenly through the atmosphere is unknown. The streaks do observe ultraviolet light. One possibility is that these streaks are evide...
Here we explore this eccentric planet with 20 interesting facts about Venus. Related: Venera timeline: The Soviet Union's Venus missions in pictures Lee Cavendish Lee Cavendish holds a degree in Observational Astronomy from the University of South Wales, United Kingdom, where his research interests...
Venus Facts For Kids The planet Venus is a little smaller than Earth and similar in mass and density, (what it’s made up of). It has a similar level of gravity too. It has no rings round it, no moons and it spins backwards. What this means is that on Ve
While you still couldn’t breathe the atmosphere high above Venus’ surface, at about 50 kilometers (31 miles) you’ll at least find the same pressure and atmosphere density as that of Earth. A very preliminary NASA study suggests that at some point,we could deploy airshipsfor humans to ...
Venus’s atmosphere is a cocktail of corrosive substances, primarily sulfuric acid and ferric chloride. This rain can dissolve landers made from ferrous metals. NASA is developing the AREE (Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments), designed to withstand these harsh conditions, utilizing wind-powered...