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Madison
asked:
What is the size of venus?
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Venus is 12,104 kilometres/7,521
miles across. It is slightly smaller than Earth which is 12,756 kilometres/9,926
miles across.
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| Is
Venus bigger than Mercury? |
Yes, Venus
is bigger than Mercury. Mercury has a diameter of 4,878 km, Venus has a
diameter of 12,104 km.
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| What
is the number of rings around Venus? |
There are no rings (or even
moons) around Venus.
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| How far is Venus away from
the sun compared to Earth?
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Venus orbits
the Sun at an average distance of 108,160,000 kilometres (67,000,000
miles). Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149,600,000
kilometres (92,960,000 miles). Although this means there is a distance of
over 4 million kilometres between the two planets, they are the two
closest planets in the Solar System.
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Drew asked:
I am studying Venus in school (2nd grade) and used your website for some
research. I liked learning about the Magellan Mission. One
thing I have learned from school is that the pressure on Venus is so
strong that it could crack a ship. When the Magellan ship
orbited Venus for 4 years, why didn't it break apart as other ships
would have? I am really looking forward to finding out more!
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Thanks for visiting my
website and using it for your research. In answer to your question, the
pressure on Venus is so strong that it would crush any object on its
surface. However, when the Magellan space craft visited Venus, it stayed
in orbit around the planet at a safe distance and took radar images of Venus
to allow us to map the surface of the planet. Although Venus' surface
pressure is great, the planet's pull of gravity is similar to Earth's so a
satellite can be put into orbit around the planet and remain there just
like a satellite around Earth. At the end of its mission on 11th October
1994, the space craft was purposely dropped out of orbit around Venus
so it fell into the planet's atmosphere. It either burnt up during its
descent through the atmosphere or was crushed by the planet's pressure
when it reached the surface.
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