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Venus
Nearly the Earth's twin in size and mass, and nothing like it anywhere else. A carbon-dioxide atmosphere ninety times the pressure of ours holds the surface at about 465 °C - hotter than Mercury's, and the same all over, day side and night - under permanent cloud of sulphuric acid. It turns backwards, and so slowly that its day is longer than its year.
- Radius
- 6,052 km
- Around the equator
- 38,025 km
- Mass
- 4.87 x 10^24 kg
- Compared with the Earth
- 0.815 ×
- Turns once in
- 243 d (backwards)
- From the Sun
- 108,554,324 km (-18,112 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 43,723,567 km (-462,515 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 2 min
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.