By Carlos Vera * This is a picture of Venus in space.

* Venus was seen by a spacecraft named Mariner 2, in * Venus may sometimes be visible at Earth. * The Mariner 2 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral on August 27, 1962 and passed as close as 34,773 kilometers (21,607 mi) to Venus on December 14, 1962.

* The Romans knew of seven bright objects in the sky: the Sun, the Moon, and the five brightest planets. * They named them after their most important gods. * Venus, the brightest planet in the night sky, was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

* Sun, orbiting it every Earth days It has the longest rotation period (245 days) of any planet in the Solar System and rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets. Venus rotates so slow cause a atmospheric Venus is the second planet from the tide created by solar heating of the thick Venusian atmosphere.

* There are even a few asteroids that have moons. * Venus; however, may not have always been moonless.

* Venus’s appearance seems to be very rocky and has lot and tons of magma and volcanoes. * Venus is also very hot since it is the second planet closest to the sun. Venus contains almost no water vapor. * The atmosphere is so thick in fact that the pressure at the surface of the planet is 92 times that of earth.

* For a planet to have rings, it must have formed further out in the solar system, where water ice would be able to freeze into chunks of ice. It’s too warm around Venus so that any water would be a gas or a liquid.

* This is a picture of a satellite from Venus. There are many satellites that explored Venus here is a list of four of them. Sputnik7 February another is Mariner 2 27 August 1962 another is Venera 1964A it visited in February last is Venera 6 it visited in January

Venus is known as the morning star. It is also the brightest planet since it is close to the sun. Most of atmosphere is almost made up of only carbon dioxide. Earth and Venus are like basically the same size. It is 7,522 miles wide last the temperature can be more than 460ºC