NASA/JPL/USGS Like Earth, our Twin planet Venus’s origins began around 4.5 billion years ago, in a gyrating cloud of dust, rock and rubble. In many ways, the two planets are similar—in size, density and gravity. Both have iron-rich cores, mantles filled with churning molten rock, an...
Up close, NASA says the color of Venus is"rusty", but not the kind of deep red rust one would find on the planetMars. Rather, pictures NASA and others have sent back from Venus suggest a world with tinges of red, brown and yellow.Cornell University suggeststhat color comes from the...
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
Venus is one of the weirdest planets in the solar system. We explore the scorching planet in more detail with 20 interesting facts about Venus.
We have recorded a whole episode of Astronomy Cast that’s only about planet Venus. Listen to it here,Episode 50: Venus. References: NASA ISTP: Venus NASA StarChild: Facts on Venus NASA Facts: Magellan Mission to Venus
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...
Kathy Sawyer
Venus stayed largely unexplored. Now, things are about to change: NASA has announced two missions to Venus by 2030 and here's why that's exciting.
Credit: NASA/JPL Some planetary scientists refer to our cosmic neighbor Venus as “the planet that threw up on itself.” Let me explain. The brightest planet in our skies, an object of eternal mystery, Venus is shrouded in thick clouds that have defied historical attempts to understand our...
NASA’sMagellanspacecraft was launched on May 4th, 1989, with a mission to map the surface of Venus with radar. In the course of its four and a half year mission,Magellanprovided the most high-resolution images to date of the planet, was able to map 98% of the surface and 95% of ...