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Arrow Venus Facts You Might Not Know About

  • Venus is known as Earths' twin sister because of its similar size and proximity to each other.
  • Its atmosphere is made up mostly of carbon dioxide.
  • Venus rotates so slowly that it orbits the sun faster than it can make one whole rotation on its axis. In other words, Venus has a longer day than year.
  • It takes 243 days for Venus to make a rotation.
  • And it takes 224 days for Venus to orbit around the sun.
  • Venus is the most widely explored planet aside from our own Earth. Numerous space probes have been sent to Venus to gather data and some have landed on the surface.
  • It is believed that Venus used to have bodies of water similar to Earth, but dried up over a period of 300 million years when the sun began admitting more solar energy after the sun's infancy stage.
  • The clouds of Venus is filled with sulfuric acid.
  • Venus has mountains that are higher than Earth. Maat Mons is more than 5 miles high.
  • Venus is the brightest planet viewed from Earth.
  • The planet rotates from East to West. The only other planet that does this is Uranus.

Source : http://www.planetfacts.net/Venus-Facts.html
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