About Venus

Venus is the second closest planet to the sun and is nicknamed after the roman goddess. Venus' period of rotation [retrograde] is 243 earth days and period of revolution is about 225 days. Venus has a mass of 4.87 times 10^24 kg and has a diameter of 12104 km. It is about .723 AU away from the sun. Venus' atmosphere at the surface is about 90 atmospheres. It has an extremely dense atmosphere and traps heat within it making it very hot. Venus' atmosphere also contains sulphuric acid.