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Earth's nearness to Venus is a matter of perspective. The planet is nearly as big around as Earth. Its diameter at its equator is about 7,521 miles (12,104 km), versus 7,926 miles (12,756 km) for Earth. Venus is similar in structure and size to Earth, and is sometimes called Earth's evil twin. Its thick atmosphere traps heat in a runaway greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet in our solar system with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead. Below the dense, persistent clouds, the surface has volcanoes and deformed mountains. It is the 2nd planet in our Solar System and also the hottest. Venus takes 225 Earth days to revolve around the sun. Due to its atmosphere, Venus traps heat which causes the planets temperature to be constantly around 867°F (464°C). Galileo Galilei was the first person to look at Venus with a telescope in 1610. Venus is named for the ancient Roman goddess of love and beauty, who was known as Aphrodite to the ancient Greeks. It’s the only planet named after a female god.
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Venus is one of only two planets in our solar system that doesn't have a moon, but it does have a quasi-satellite that has officially been named Zoozve. This object was discovered on Nov. 11, 2002, by Brian Skiff at the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) in Flagstaff, Arizona, a project funded by NASA that ended in February 2008.
Venus has valleys and high mountains dotted with thousands of volcanoes. Its surface features – most named for both real and mythical women – include Ishtar Terra, a rocky, highland area around the size of Australia near the north pole, and an even larger, South-America-sized region called Aphrodite Terra that stretches across the equator. One mountain reaches 36,000 feet (11 km), higher than Mt. Everest. Notably, except for Earth, Venus has by far the fewest impact craters of any rocky planet.
On Earth, with its spin axis tilted by about 23 degrees, we experience summer when our part of the planet (our hemisphere) receives the Sun’s rays more directly – a result of that tilt. In winter, the tilt means the rays are less direct. No such luck on Venus: Its very slight tilt is only three degrees, which is too little to produce noticeable seasons.
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