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Venus Galileo Galilee was the first person to see Venus as a planet rather than a bright star in the sky. The first recorded transit of Venus was in 1639. Named Venus by Ancient Romans Named Aphrodite by Ancient Greeks Venus AKA Aphrodite was the Greek A volcanoes on Goddess of Love and Beauty. Venus is named Venus was a huge part of the In the Aztec religion after the Venus was the symbol Mayan religion because Venus Goddess Sif was associated with their chief for the god from the Norse Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli. god Quetzalcoatl and his mythology. incarnation Kulkulkan. A Russian astronomer On 1874 the U.S. congress Mikhail V. Lomonosov funded 177,000 dollars for discovered that Venus had research on Venus. an atmosphere. During a transit in June 5 1761. History Solar Facts of Venus Tilt of axis 177-178 Venus is the second planet from the degrees sun and the nearest in size to earth. A year on Mass =O.82*earth Venus is Diameter 7,522 miles 226.3 The Planetary Symbol is the female symbol in biology. A day is 243 spinning retrograde to earth. Minimum distance from the sun 67 million miles, maximum distance from the sun 68 million miles. Atmosphere and Surface of Venus’s atmosphere is made up of Venus 96.5%Carbon Dioxide,3.5% Nitrogen,and less than 1%Sulfur Dioxide,Argon,water vapor,Carbon Monoxide,Helium, and Neon. Temperatures reach to 900 degrees Fahrenheit. Distance from From earth it sometimes looks like earth 25 a bright star. Because of the million miles. atmosphere of Venus There are over 1600 we are unable to see Venus in major volcanoes, the surface from Real mountains, large earth. Color. highland terrains, and vast lava plains. Interior and Surface of Venus Venus Crust is estimated to be 500 million years old. Venus does not have tectonic plates causing A process known as subduction is slow absent in small scale forms that happen all the time, on Venus instead subduction. it occurs in an enormous scale every once in awhile long time, the exact It can get as time is unknown but it is know that it cold as 220 hasn’t happened for the past 500 degrees million years. Celsius on Venus.