Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. As the second-brightest natural object in Earth's night sky after the Moon, Venus can cast shadows and can be, on rare occasion, visible to the naked eye in broad daylight.
Venus orbits the Sun every 224.7 Earth days.[17] With a rotation period of 243 Earth days, it takes longer to rotate about its axis than any other planet in the Solar System by far, and does so in the opposite direction to all but Uranus (meaning the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east).[18] Venus does not have any moons, a distinction it shares only with Mercury among the planets in the Solar System.[19]
Venus Facts
- Diameter: 6,879 km
- Mass: 4.29 × 11^23 kg (0.06 Earths)
- Moons: None
- Orbit Distance: 67,909,227 km (0.39 AU)
- Orbit Period: 88 days
- Surface Temperature: -173 to 427°C
- First Record: 14th century BC
- Recorded By: Assyrian astronomers