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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Venus (planet)
		Venus was known to ancient Babylonians around 1600 BC, and to the Mayan civilization (the Mayans developed a religious calendar based on Venus's motion) and must have been known long before in prehistoric times, given that it is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon.
		Venus (and also Mercury) is not visible from Earth when it is full, since at that time it is at superior conjunction, rising and setting concomitantly with the Sun and hence lost in the Sun's glare.
		Venus is brightest when approximately 25% of its disk is illuminated; this typically occurs 37 days both before (in the evening sky) and after (in the morning sky), its inferior conjunction.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Venus-%28planet%29 (9883 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Venus (planet)
		It is a terrestrial planet, very similar in size and bulk composition to Earth; it is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" as a result of this similarity.
		Venus has an atmosphere consisting mainly of carbon dioxide and a small amount of nitrogen, with a pressure at the surface about 90 times that of Earth (a pressure equivalent to a depth of 1 kilometer under Earth's ocean).
		Venus was the most important celestial body observed by the Maya, who called it Chak ek, "the Great Star", and considered it a representation of Quetzalcoatl; they apparently did not worship any of the other planets.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ve/Venus_(planet) (1555 words)

	Venus (planet) - MSN Encarta
		Venus is nearly the same size as Earth, but takes 243 days to rotate on its axis in the opposite direction.
		The phases of Venus were one of the proofs that the 17th-century astronomer Galileo used to show that Earth itself orbits the Sun.
		The atmosphere of the planet consists of 97 percent carbon dioxide (CO) and is so thick that the surface pressure is 96 bars (compared with 1 bar on Earth).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557158/Venus_(planet).html (1757 words)

	Venus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Venus was known to ancient Babylonians around 1600 BC, and to the Mayan civilization (the Mayans developed a religious calendar based on Venus's motion) and must have been known long before in prehistoric times, given that it is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon.
		Venus (and also Mercury) is not visible from Earth when it is full, since at that time it is at superior conjunction, rising and setting concomitantly with the Sun and hence lost in the Sun's glare.
		Venus is brightest when approximately 25% of its disk is illuminated; this typically occurs 37 days both before (in the evening sky) and after (in the morning sky), its inferior conjunction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venus_(planet) (4893 words)

	Venus Introduction
		Venus, the jewel of the sky, was once know by ancient astronomers as the morning star and evening star.
		The interior characteristics of Venus are inferred from gravity field and magnetic field measurements by Magellan and prior spacecraft.
		This beautiful image of Venus is a mosaic of three images acquired by the Mariner 10 spacecraft on February 5, 1974.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/venus.htm (2385 words)

	Venus (planet) - MSN Encarta
		The planet is called the morning star when it appears in the east at sunrise, and the evening star when it is in the west at sunset.
		In November 2005 the Venus Express probe was launched by the European Space Agency on a two-year mission to study the planet’s atmosphere.
		Venus rotates very slowly on its axis, and the direction is retrograde (opposite to that of the Earth).
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557158/Venus_(planet).html (1602 words)

	Venus
		Venus is the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest.
		The planet is so named probably because it is the brightest of the planets known to the ancients.
		Venus is usually visible with the unaided eye.
	www.nineplanets.org /venus.html (1239 words)

	Venus
		Venus is the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest.
		Venus' rotation is somewhat unusual in that it is both very slow (243 Earth days per Venus day, slightly longer than Venus' year) and retrograde.
		However on Venus the stress is relieved in many relatively small regions instead of being concentrated at the boundaries of large plates as is the case on Earth.
	seds.lpl.arizona.edu /nineplanets/nineplanets/venus.html (1246 words)

	Venus: planet of love: iVillage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Venus is all about pleasure - preferably, the shared type.
		Venus is content to spread happiness and tenderness, while teaching us how to love and appreciate other people, our gifts and our possessions.
		Venus needs 225 days to complete its orbit of the Zodiac; it is never more than 47 degrees from the Sun.
	www.ivillage.co.uk /print/0,9688,162616,00.html (225 words)

	Venus - Crystalinks
		Venus was known to ancient Babylonians around 1600 BC, and to the Mayan civilization (the Mayans developed a religious calendar based on Venus's motion) and must have been known long before in prehistoric times, given that it is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon.
		Venus (and also Mercury) is not visible from Earth when it is full, since at that time it is at superior conjunction, rising and setting concomitantly with the Sun and hence lost in the Sun's glare.
		Venus is brightest when approximately 25% of its disk is illuminated; this typically occurs 37 days both before (in the evening sky) and after (in the morning sky), its inferior conjunction.
	www.crystalinks.com /venus.html (3353 words)

	Symbols.com - Symbol 41a:7
		In Greece the planet was associated with Aphrodite and Athena.
		In the Roman Empire it was associated with Venus, and in the Phoenician Empire with Astarte.
		If one plots one of Venus' appearances' (as the Morning star, or as the Evening star) movements in the zodiac during exactly eight years, this structure is the result.
	www.symbols.com /encyclopedia/41a/41a7.html (508 words)

	UFO Planet
		Venus is full when it's on the other side of the Sun.
		Venus' atmosphere, 90 times heavier than Earth's, is almost pure carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps solar heat.
		Venus and the Moon -- Pete Lawrence of Selsey, UK, took this picture on April 25, 2004, a night when the phases of Venus and the Moon were almost identical.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2004/03may_maximumvenus.htm (667 words)

	Venus: Hothouse Planet :: Astrobiology Magazine - earth science - evolution distribution Origin of life universe - life ...
		Venus should not have escaped whatever it was that gave Earth its water.
		I say 'Venus-like planet' because the problem is applicable not just to Venus, but to terrestrial planets on the inner edge of the habitable zone anywhere in the galaxy, or other galaxies.
		It may be that Venus used to have something like terrestrial-style plate tectonics which was lubricated by water, and that once the water went away, it switched to a more episodic kind of behavior.
	www.astrobio.net /news/article1137.html (2637 words)

	Space Today Online -- Solar System -- Planet Venus
		Venus is one of the four rocky metallic planets nearest the Sun.
		The planet is named for the ancient goddess of beauty because it the brightest object in Earth's sky after the Sun and the Moon.
		In what they call a moist-greenhouse or wet-greenhouse effect, the water on Venus was able to remain liquid for a few hundred million years because planet temperatures actually were cooler than Earth scientists once thought, and because of the proportion of carbon dioxide to water vapor in the atmosphere of Venus.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Venus/VenusPlanet.html (577 words)

	Venus: Hothouse Planet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Venus should not have escaped whatever it was that gave Earth its water.
		I say 'Venus-like planet' because the problem is applicable not just to Venus, but to terrestrial planets on the inner edge of the habitable zone anywhere in the galaxy, or other galaxies.
		It may be that Venus used to have something like terrestrial-style plate tectonics which was lubricated by water, and that once the water went away, it switched to a more episodic kind of behavior.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/venus-04k.html (2496 words)

	The Planetary Society's Learning Center: Venus, Second Planet from to the Sun
		Named for the Roman goddess of love and beauty, Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is often called Earth's "sister world." But although these planets are about the same size and orbit in the same neck of the solar system's woods, the similarities go downhill from there.
		Venus' surface pressure is about 90 times that of Earth (or equivalent to the pressure found one mile beneath Earth's oceans.) Its thick, poisonous atmosphere is comprised mainly of carbon dioxide with clouds of sulfuric acid.
		This portrait of Venus was captured by the Galileo spacecraft as it flew past the planet in 1990.
	www.planetary.org /learn/solarsystem/venus.html (840 words)

	Planet Guide - Venus
		Venus is covered by thick, rapidly spinning clouds that trap surface heat, creating a scorched greenhouse-like world with temperatures hot enough to melt lead and pressure so intense that standing on Venus would feel like the pressure felt 900 meters deep in Earth’s oceans.
		Earth and Venus are similar in density and chemical compositions, and both have relatively young surfaces, with Venus appearing to have been completely resurfaced 300 to 500 million years ago.
		Venus has no satellites and no intrinsic magnetic field, but the solar wind rushing by Venus creates a pseudo-field around the planet.
	www.planetguide.bravepages.com /Venus/Venus.html (686 words)

	Venus (planet) - Simple English Wikipedia
		Venus is the second planet From the Sun.
		It is made of Rocks and has a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere.
		This planet was named after Venus the Roman goddess of love and beauty.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venus_(planet) (172 words)

	Solar System Exploration: Planets: Venus
		The two planets are similar in size, mass, composition, and distance from the Sun.
		Venus is covered by thick, rapidly spinning clouds that trap surface heat, creating a scorched greenhouse-like world with temperatures hot enough to melt lead and pressure so intense that standing on Venus would feel like the pressure felt 900 meters deep in Earth's oceans.
		Because Venus reflects so much sunlight, it is usually the brightest planet in the sky.
	solarsystem.nasa.gov /planets/profile.cfm?Object=Venus (108 words)

	ScienceMaster - JumpStart - Planet Venus
		For example, Venus' rotation (west to east) is retrograde (backward) compared to the east-to-west spin of Earth and most of the other planets.
		Venus' atmosphere acts like a greenhouse, permitting solar radiation to reach the surface but trapping the heat that would ordinarily be radiated back into space.
		Venus' predominant weather pattern is a high-altitude, high-speed circulation of clouds that contain sulfuric acid.
	www.sciencemaster.com /jump/space/venus.php (647 words)

	The Planets: Understanding Astrology - astrology.com
		Venus is all about pleasure, especially pleasure shared with someone else.
		Venus is content to spread happiness and tenderness, all the while teaching us how to love and appreciate others and the things that we possess.
		Venus takes 225 days to complete its orbit of the zodiac; it is never more than 47 degrees from the Sun.
	www.astrology.com /aboutastrology/interpreting/planets/venus.html (227 words)

	Astronomy & Astrology - Venus (planet)
		Because of the distances of the orbits of Venus and earth from the sun, Venus is never visible more than three hours before sunrise or three hours after sunset.
		Venus is the brightest object in our sky, after the sun and moon.
		These probes determined that Venus is the hottest of the planets, with a surface temperature of about 460° C (about 860° F).
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/horoscopes/avenusp.htm (321 words)

	Is the Planet Venus Young?
		I will look at Venus in what I consider the 3 major aspects of the planet: its atmosphere, its surface, and its interior, in order to explore the question of the age of Venus.
		The interior of Venus, at least in composition, is not unlike the interior of the Earth, which is basically true of Mars and Mercury as well.
		In order to apply this toy equation to Venus, he invoked "forced convection" to rapidly move magma from the interior to the surface, but then turned around and calculated the cooling as if there were no thermal gradient at all between the surface and the center.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/venus-young.html (3747 words)

	The Solar System: Venus
		Venus is known as the earth's "twin" because the two planets are so similar in size.
		Venus is the second planet of the Solar System and is the most similar to Earth in its composition.
		Venus is the second closest planet to the sun apart from Mercury.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/ss_venus.htm (374 words)

	VENUS - ENCHANTED LEARNING SOFTWARE
		This is a planet on which a person would asphyxiate in the poisonous atmosphere, be cooked in the extremely high heat, and be crushed by the enormous atmospheric pressure.
		Venus is also known as the "morning star" or the "evening star" since it is visible and quite bright at either dawn or dusk.
		This is the symbol of the planet Venus.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/astronomy/planets/venus (540 words)

	The Planet Venus
		Venus was often considered a "twin sister" to the Earth because Venus is the nearest planet to us, and because superficially the two planets seem to share many characteristics
		In earlier times, there was considerable speculation concerning the possibility of life on Venus, sometimes with rather elaborate characteristics.
		In the last 30 years we have learned a great deal about our "sister" planet, and we now know that almost nothing on Venus is like that on the Earth.
	csep10.phys.utk.edu /astr161/lect/venus/venus.html (225 words)

	Planet Venus - Overview and Pictures
		Venus (the Goddess of Love) is the planet second closest to the Sun, and the hottest planet in the Solar System.
		In Venus however this doesn't happen and so the atmosphere thickens and produces a runaway greenhouse effect, so the rays (and heat) of the Sun shine onto the planet but are then trapped there by the dense atmosphere.
		The planet itself is visible in the night sky a few hours before sunrise (as the Morning Star) and after sunset (as the Evening Star) at certain times of the year and it looks like a brilliant blue-white star.
	www.solarspace.co.uk /Venus/venus.php (1111 words)

	Venus - Planet Venus
		Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
		And oddly enough, the periods of Venus' rotation and of its orbit are synchronized such that it always presents the same face to Earth when the two planets are at their closest approach.
		Venus' atmosphere is composed primarily of carbon dioxide.
	www.lisashea.com /hobbies/astronomy/art13025.html (418 words)

	SparkNotes: Venus: Venus' Geology
		Venus does not display the widespread erosion phenomena typical of the Earth, where the main agent of erosion is water.
		Most of the planet (65%) is a made of a series of volcanic plains, but Magellan also found high plains called 'crustal plateaus', volcanic formations close to continents in size.
		The big surprise is that all of Venus' planet surface seems to have more or less the same number of meteoric craters, suggesting that all features such as its plains and continents have the same age.
	www.sparknotes.com /astronomy/venus/section4.rhtml (1028 words)

	Venus, Planet Venus, Venus Planet, Venus the Planet, the Planet Venus at SPACE.com
		Named for the Roman goddess of love by the same name, the planet Venus is the second planet from the Sun, at a distance of roughly 108,209,000 kilometers.
		Venus actually rotates from east to west, as opposed to west to east which is the common rotating direction of most other planets in space.
		The atmosphere on the surface of the planet Venus consists mostly of carbon dioxide, with a small trace of nitrogen.
	www.space.com /venus (340 words)

	Planet Venus Information in Bible Quotes
		The Planet Venus' Orbits - I present the orbit in two ways: Venus' astronomic orbit around the Sun, calculated by conventional technological means, and the biblical orbit, obtained from biblical numbers.
		Venus is a planet with a retrograde rotation movement around its axis, i.
		As a consequence, Venus' rotational movement around its axis would have been inverted and its radius would have increased around five percent, which, not by chance, coincides with the number of times the number forty is directly linked to Moses, namely five times.
	www.bible-quotes-science-info.com /art/planet-venus-information.htm (659 words)

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