Venus
Reference > Science > The Solar System- Venus was named after the Roman goddess of beauty; not surprising, considering that it is the brightest of all the planets in the night sky.
- Though it is quite beautiful, Venus is also quite deadly; its atmosphere contains clouds of sulfuric acid, a very corrosive substance.
- Even though it is not closest to the sun, Venus is the hottest of all the planets. This is likely the result of an extreme case of greenhouse effect
- Venus has the proud distinction of having the opposite direction spin from all the other planets (though Uranus has an odd spin of its own!)
- Would you like to live on a planet with days that are longer than its years? That's right! A year on Venus is 225 of our days, but its day is 243 of our days!
- Venus is the setting for C. S. Lewis's science fiction novel Perelandra ("Perelandra" was the name given to Venus by its inhabitants) !
Questions
1.
What would happen to you if you went to the surface of Venus? Do you think you could survive with a space suit?
2.
If 100 years pass on earth, how many years pass on Venus?
3.
If 100 years pass on earth, how many days pass on Venus?
4.
If 100 days pass on Venus, how many years is that on earth?
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