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The Planet genus genus VenusIntroductionThe satellite we know as Venus is the second planet from the solarize in our solar system. The Planet is also the brightest if we were looking at it from earth. According to a some information I have found it is the third brightest aeriform object in the sky (after the Sun and Moon)And is also one of the few bodies in our Solar System that rotates east to west (retrograde) (http//www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hanger/9188/venu.html). It takes Venus around two hundred and twenty-four days on Earth for it to complete one full rotation. This makes Venus the planet with the slowest rotation in our Solar System. Venuss year is shorter than its day being only two hundred and twenty-five days on Earth. Venus is also the Planet that comes the closest to our planet Earth. Venus comes about twenty-five million miles or fifteen million kilometers from the Earths surface. Venus has a thick atmosphere and extreme atmospherical pressure, 92 times the E arths pressure. The clouds are composed primarily of sulfur compounds, most notably sulfuric acid (Http//www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hanger/9188/venu.html). The Surface We gathered selective information from a satellite we sent to Venus showing us that Venus is a highly Volcanically active planet. With more and more satellite images being produced we see that the surface of the planet is changing. We have found that some Volcanoes that were on Venus some odd years ago have become nonoperational and new Volcanoes have been made, Thus proving the Plates under Venuss surface are still moving and the planet is not dead actually, it is very existing Venus has many Mountains and Volcanoes on its surface. There are also several board depressions Atlanta Planitia, Guinevere Planitia, Lavinia Planitia. There two large highland areas Istar Terra in the Yankee hemisphere (about the size of Australia) and Aphrodite Terra along the equator (about the size of South America). The interior o f Ishtar consists mainly of a high plateau, Lakshmi Planum, which is surrounded by the highest mountains on Venus including the enormous maxwell Montes (Http//seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/venus.html).The AtmosphereI copied the following chart to show the comparison of the atmosphere between Earth and Venus.(Davison E. Soper, Institute of Theoretical Science, University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403 USA soperbovine.uoregon.edu) Earth VenusN_2 0.79 3O_2 0.20 0.002Ar 0.01 smallCO_2 0.0003 86H_2O 0.02 0.01Total 1.00 90--------------------------H_2O 3 km 30 cmliquid + vaporClouds (50 to 70 km preceding(prenominal) surface) H_2SO_4 (sulfuric acid). (http//zebu.uoregon.edu/soper/Venus/atmosphere.html) Because of all the gasses in Venuss atmosphere it has been named one of the most poisonous planets in our solar system.