Joe Landis
Block 1
Mr. Craft
Research Report
Joe Landis i
The Planet Venus iii
Introduction iii
The Surface iii
The Atmosphere iii
Volcanoes v
Magellan Mission v
Work Cited Page vii
The Planet Venus
Introduction
The planet we know as Venus is the second planet from the Sun in our solar system. The Planet is also the brightest if we were looking at it from earth. According to a some information I have found it "is the third brightest celestial object in the sky (after the Sun and Moon)
[And] is also one of the few bodies in our Solar System that rotates east to west (retrograde) (http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hanger/9188/venu.html)." It takes Venus around two hundred and twenty-four days on Earth for it to complete one full rotation. This makes Venus the planet with the slowest rotation in our Solar System. Venus's year is shorter than its day being only two hundred and twenty-five days on Earth. Venus is also the Planet that comes the closest to......
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