PLANET VENUS
CHARACTERISTICS
ORBIT
Although all planetary orbits are
elliptical, the orbit of Venus is the
closest to a circle, with an eccentricity of
less than 1.2%.
The cycle between two maximum
elongations (synodic orbital period)
lasts 584 days. After those 584 days
Venus appears in a position at 72° from
the previous elongation. Since there are
five periods of 72° in a circle, Venus
returns to the same point in the sky
every eight years (minus two days
-
corresponding to leap years). This
period was known
At inferior as the Sotis
conjunction, Venuscycle
canin
Ancient Egypt.to Earth than any other
come closer
planet. On December 16, 1850, it
reached the closest distance to Earth
since the year 1800, with a value of
39,514,827 kilometers (0.26413854
AU). Since then there has never been
such a close approach. An almost as
close approach will be in the year
2101, when Venus will reach a
distance of 39,541,578 kilometers
(0.26431736 AU).
I.E. N° 0161 “ANIBAL SEGUNDO
Venus is the second planet in the solar
DEL AGUILA GUEVARA”
system in order of proximity to the Sun
and the third smallest after Mercury
TITULO:
and Mars. Like Mercury, it lacks natural
satellites. It is named in honor of Venus,
the Roman goddess of love (in Ancient PLANET
Greece, Aphrodite). As the second
brightest natural object after the Moon,
it can be seen in a clear night sky with VENUS
the naked eye. It appears at dawn and at
dusk. Due to the distances of Venus and
Earth's orbits from the Sun, Venus is
never visible more than three hours
before sunrise or three hours after
sunset.
It is a rocky and terrestrial inner planet,
often called the sister planet of Earth,
since both are similar in size, mass and
composition, although totally different
in thermal and atmospheric matters INTEGRANTES:
(the average temperature of Venus is - OCUPA AMASIFEN NELSON
463.85 °C). Its orbit is an ellipse with an - CHAVEZ TRUJILLO GEORGE
eccentricity of less than 1%, forming the ALUMNO: THIAGO ALEXANDER PÉ REZ
MCKLEIN
most circular orbit of all the planets; it CARDENAS
barely exceeds that of Neptune. Its GRADO : °
GRADO: 6°
atmospheric pressure is 90 times higher
than Earth's; It is, therefore, the highest SECCION:
SECCIÓN: B
atmospheric pressure of all the rocky
planets in the solar system. It is PROFESORA:
DOCENTE: AIDA CECILIA CERÓ N PÉ REZ
yellowish in color due to its
atmosphere, which is mostly composed
of carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrogen
sulfide (H2S) and nitrogen (N2).
Atmosphere
Venus has a dense atmosphere, made up
mostly of carbon dioxide and a small
amount of nitrogen.
surface is ninety times higher than the
atmospheric pressure at the Earth's
surface (a pressure equivalent on Earth
to the pressure submerged in water at a
depth of one kilometer).
Rotation
Venus rotates on itself very slowly in a
retrograde motion, in the same
clockwise direction if the north pole is
taken as a reference, from east to west
instead of west to east like the rest of
the planets (except Uranus, which is
very inclined), taking 243,187 Earth
days to make a complete rotation on
itself. The reason for the peculiar
rotation of Venus is not known. If the
Sun could be seen from the surface of
Venus, it would appear rising from the
west and settling in the east, with a day-
night cycle of 116.75 Earth days10 and
a Venusian year of less than one stellar
day (0.92 Venusian stellar days).
Structure and surface SURFACE TEMPERATURES
It is the warmest planet in the solar The average surface temperature is
system. around 467° C (872°F), hot enough to
It is a terrestrial planet: it is small and melt lead.
rocky.
Its atmosphere is dense: it traps heat SURFACE PRESSURE
and that is why it is so hot.
It has an active surface, which includes The atmospheric pressure at the surface
volcanoes. is about 92 ties that of erarts equivalent
It rotates in the opposite direction to to the pressure found 900 meters (3000
the Earth and most of the planets. feet) underwater on Earth.
Weather on Venus
A day lasts 243 Earth days.
A year lasts 225 Earth days.
retrograde movement
It is in the east direction, lasts 6 weeks
and its intermediate moment is the
inferior conjunction. Therefore, it
begins 3 weeks before the inferior
conjunction, covering the last 3 weeks
of a synodic cycle and concludes 3
weeks after the conjunction, covering
the first 3 weeks of the next. In the rest
of the synodic cycle Venus appears to go
in a straight line towards the East for 77
weeks and the intermediate moment is
the superior conjunction