PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF VENUS

• Radius: 6050 KM
• Mass: 4.9✖️10^24 KG
• It is 72 au away from the sun

ROTATION OF VENUS

• Takes 224.7 earth days to orbit
• Rotation takes longer than a year
• Rotates backwards
• Takes 243 days to rotate on its axis
• 225 days to rotate around the sun

Retrograde motion is motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else, the opposite of prograde

VENUS'S ATOMOSPHERE

• Covered in clouds
• No gravitational pull
• Venus is believed to have active vocanoes
• No water anymore
• Reflects alot of the suns light

FUN FACTS

• Hottest planet in the solar system
• Word venus means love
• Venus and earth are similar in size
• One day lasts longer than a year
• Second largest terrestrial planet

PICTURES OF VENUS

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