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	Select A Planet • Mercury • Venus • Earth-Moon • Mars • Jupiter • Saturn • Uranus • Neptune • Pluto-Charon • Sun	Here are some facts about Venus: brighter as seen from Earth than any other planet or star known as Earth's "twin" because of similar sizes second closest to the sun and has no moons orbit is nearly in a circular motion distance from sun closest point: 107,476,000 kilometers away from sun farthest point: 108,942,000 kilometers away from sun revolution takes about 225 Earth days rotation takes 243 Earth days temperatures cloud average: 13^oC surface average: 465^oC mass: 0.815 times the mass of Earth or 4,868,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms surface area: 0.902 times the surface area of Earth or 177,700,000 square miles named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty several spacecrafts had flown by Venus but have not been able to see through the thick cloud cover Mariner 2 flew by Venera 2 passed closer to "explore" Venus even more Venera 3 crashed into the planet later with spacecrafts from the US doing fly-bys and spacecrafts from the Soviet Union landing, more facts about Venus were uncovered Venera 4 droped instruments into the atmosphere by parachute Mariner 5 pased closer to Venus than any other spacecraft Venera 7 landed on Venus in 1970 Mariner 10 gave close-up images of the planet Venera 9 landed on Venus and gave the first close-up pictures of the surface Venera 10, three days later, began to analyze the surface and atmosphere after landing spacecrafts from the US finally began to land while the Soviet Union continues to take and up-close look at the surface Pioneer Venus 1 began to orbit the planet in 1978 and sent back charts and maps Pioneer Venus 2 began with the in-depth study of the atmosphere Venera 12 and 11 continued with the study of the atmosphere by analyzing the lower atmosphere Venera 13 and 14 took pictures of the surface and studied the soil Venera 15 and 16 were sent in 1983 to map the northern region and finished by 1984 Magellan was sent into orbit to show detailed features If would you like to see a picture of Maat Mons on Venus then Click Here.