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11 Kid fatcs about Venus: Fun facts about Planets


While learning amazing space facts for kids, there are a plethora of planets that would send you crazy. Venus is one of them. Venus is the nearest planet to the Sun. Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love, Venus is anything but lovable. It is the same size as Earth. It’s surface is covered with thick carbon dioxide. This article teaches top kid facts about Venus, which helps the parents to educate their kids regarding planets easily.

Planet Venus

Venus Planet Profile
Diameter:
12,104 km
Mass:
4.87 x 10^24 kg (81.5% Earth)
Moons:
None
Orbit Distance:
108,209,475 km (0.73 AU)
Orbit Period:
225 days
Surface Temperature:
462 °C
First Record:
17th century BC
Recorded By:
Babylonian astronomers

Top Kid facts about Venus:

1.    Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, brightest among all the other planets.
2.    Venus is made up mostly of carbon dioxide, its surface is covered with thick carbon dioxide.
3.    The planet Venus’s surface is called ‘stormy desert’.
4.    Another top kid fact about Venus is Venus as same gravity power which is similar to that on Earth.
5.    Planet Venus has no moons, just like Mercury.
6.    Venus doesn’t have any rings.
7.    It would fit into the Earth
8.    243 Earth days equals to 1 day of Venus.
9.    Venus was named after the Roman goddess of Love.
10. The temperature of the Venus surface can reach 471 °C.
11. The diameter of a planet Venus is 12,104km.

 Detailed top kid facts about Venus:
1.    Day on Venus lasts longer than a year: planet Venus takes 243 earth days to rotate once on its axis.
2.    Venus rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets: it means Venus rotates in opposite direction to the Sun, it is also called as retrograde rotation. The reason might be a collision in the past with an asteroid or it might be the object caused the planet to alter its rotational path.
3.    Planet Venus is the 2nd brightest object in the night sky: Venus is very bright as it can be visible during daytime on a clear day.
4.    Venus is also often called as Earth’s sister planet: It is because the Venus and Earth are similar in terms of size masses with only a 683 km difference in diameter. Both Venus and Earth have a central core, a crust and a molten mantle.
5. According to the kid facts about Earth, once it was thought that the planet Venus is similar to Earth so that it might have life on it. Due to the modern technology, it has been found that not to be true.
5.    Venus is also called as Morning star and Evening star: In earlier days civilizations thought Venus is of 2 different bodies, called Hesperus and Phosphorus by the Greeks, and vesper and Lucifer by the Romans. It is because when its orbit around the Sun overtakes Earth’s orbit, it changes from being visible after sunset to being visible before sunrise. The astronomers of Mayan made thorough observations of Venus as early as 650 AD.
6.    Planet Venus is poisonous: Venus is a poisonous planet because of its atmosphere where it has yellow clouds, which contains toxic gasses and sulphuric acid that would burn our skin.
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