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Venus
By- Seoyoon Kim, Peyton Smith, and
Sydney Hadden
Venus’s Size
• Venus has a similar size,
gravity, and bulk
composition as Earth.
• Venus is 177,700,000
miles in area.
• It will take us 1 year to
explore Venus.
• The mass is 0.815 of
Earth’s mass.
Location in the
Solar System
• Venus’s average distance
from the Sun is
67,237,910 miles.
• It takes 5 months to get
there from earth.
• We have to avoid the
moon in order to get to
Venus.
• It is the second planet
away from the sun.
• Its orbit period is 224.7
Earth days.
Surface
Composition
• 90% of Venus’s landforms
are volcanic.
• Venus has highland areas
that are as big as
Australia.
• There are more than
1,000 active volcanoes
over 20 miles in size on
Venus.
• Venus’s surface is rocky.
Atmosphere
• Venus’s atmosphere
consists mostly carbon
dioxide.
• It’s covered with an opaque
layer of highly reflective
sulfuric acid, which prevents
it from being seen in visible
light.
• It has the densest
atmosphere compared to all
the planets.
• Venus has no carbon cycle
or organic life.
Temperature
• Venus is the hottest
planet.
• It’s over 880 degrees
farenheight on Venus.
• It used to have an
earthlike ocean, but dried
up due to the heat.
• Probes have gotten
destroyed by high
temperatures.
Fun Facts
• Sydney, Peyton, Seoyoon
weigh 192 lbs. on Venus
altogether.
• Japan’s Akatsuki is the
next mission to Venus.
• It is called the Morning
Star & the Evening Star.
• Venus is the brightest
planet.
• Venus was named after
Afrodite, goddess of love
and beauty.
• What is Venus covered in?
Quiz Question
Answer
• Venus is covered in a
highly reflective layer of
sulfuric acid.
Spacecraft
Mission
• Our mission is to go to
Venus and live there for a
year, and to study Venus’s
surface.
• This is what we will do to
study Venus:
– take pictures
– samples
– observe
– send our probe to take
videos & samples