Diameter	12,104 km / 7,521 miles
Avg. distance from Sun	108,209,930 km / 67,237,910 miles
Number of known moons	None
Time taken to turn on axis	243 days (in retrograde)
Time taken to orbit Sun	224 days, 17 hours
Surface gravity	0.91
Average surface temp.	462 °C / 864 °F

Venus was the Roman goddess of love and beauty and this planet was given this name because of its brightness and beauty in the night sky (it is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon). Venus is the second planet from the Sun in the Solar System and the nearest planet to Earth. Deep poisonous clouds trap the heat from the Sun and cover a mountainous surface of extinct volcanoes and lava flows. Temperatures on Venus are the hottest on any planet in the Solar System, and standing on the planet's surface would crush you!