planet

Venus

About Earth's size, wrapped in thick cloud, with a surface hot enough to melt lead.

See Venus on the map

Across the equator

12,104 km

Average distance from the Sun

0.723 AU (about 108 million km)

One trip round the Sun

225 Earth days

One spin on its axis

243 Earth days, backwards. It spins the opposite way to most planets, so the Sun rises in the west.

Moons

none

Equatorial diameters (the same values the map draws) and spin: NASA NSSDC planetary fact sheets (https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/). Mean distance from the Sun: JPL Approximate Positions of the Planets, Table 1, and the JPL Small-Body Database for Ceres and Pluto. Year length is computed from the distance with Kepler's third law (years = distance in AU to the power 1.5).

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