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Venus is the closest planet to the Sun after Mercury and, in turn, the closest to Earth of those between it and the Sun. Venus is one of the smallest planets in the Solar system, counting on a diameter of more than 12 thousand kilometers, just a little less than Earth (having Jupiter, the largest of all, almost 143 thousand kilometers in diameter). Venus is named after the Roman goddess who represented the love. Normally, Venus and Mars are the only two planets that can be easily viewed from Earth on a clear, cloudless night.

Some interesting facts about the planet of Venus tell us that its orbital period, that is, the one on Earth lasts approximately 365 days and is commonly known as a year, is more than 583 days, so the year of Venus is almost twice as long as that of the Land. In addition, a distinctive feature of Venus is that of all the orbits that make up the solar system, that of this planet is the one that most resembles a circumference perfect. Also, because of this

movement So particular, Veus is the planet that comes closest to Earth at a certain moment of the translational movement of both. Finally, to this we must add the fact that only Venus and Uranus are the planets that rotate, in the solar system, clockwise or east to west as the rest are clockwise reverse.

The atmosphere Venus makes the development of any kind of life as we know it impossible. This is so since it is composed almost entirely of dioxide carbon with a small presence of nitrogen. This makes the temperature of this planet is much higher than that of the Earth, easily reaching over 400 degrees Celsius. This happens from the well-known greenhouse effect that we know today for our planet and that makes the different gases do not escape to the outside but are retained inside the atmosphere thus increasing the temperature. Its pressure is also much higher than that of the Earth, more specifically 90 times higher.

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