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Earth's Physical Characteristics Of Venus: Similar To Planet Earth

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Despite its many uniqueness’ Venus is similar to a multitude of planets in the milky way galaxy. Aspects of Venus are comparable to planet earth and countless other planets. However, Earth 's physical characteristics are very comparable. For example, Venus radius is only about 322 kilometers less than earth 's. This may seem to be a colossal difference, but keep in mind it 's in reference to planets that are upwards of 3,000 kilometers. They remain comparable since 300 kilometers is only a tenth of their size. Some aspects of Venus remain unique, however many are relatable to a multitude of other planets especially earth.
Venus may have similarities to other planets, however it certainly does not lack uniqueness. The planet with the longest …show more content…

Although Venus has a central core, rocky mantle, and solid crust composition similar to earth, the environment within its atmosphere other than its composition is extravagantly different. Venus is 108.2 million kilometers away from the sun and the second closest planet to the sun. The atmosphere of Venus creates a greenhouse effect trapping all the heat in. This leads to Venus having an average surface temperature of 462 degrees Celsius. Crowning it the planet with the hottest surface temperature in our galaxy. There is no obvious change in seasons on Venus so this temperature is consistent throughout the year on Venus. But hot isn’t the only way to describe Venus’ surface, volcanic is just as fitting. There is a minimum of 1600 volcanic features of Venus, although only 100 more volcanoes than earth, those of Venus erupt more frequently. We are positive of this volcanic landforms on Venus, however some think there was once oceans that were evaporated by the increase of temperatures on …show more content…

Studies of Venus have been done since 17th century BC by babylonian astronomers. From earth Venus can be seen right before sunrise or sunset which is why its referred to as the morning or evening star. It may seem that Venus is very similar to us but that could be due to the fact that we know the most about earth when against are knowledge of other planets. Regardless the Earth and Venus don’t have rings, are terrestrial planets, have similar masses, density, volume, and size. Terrestrial is the type of planet and tells us that the planet is mainly made of metals and rocks as opposed to being made of gas and reffered to as a gas giant or jovian planet. The mass of Venus is 4.867x10^24 kilograms and earth is slightly larger at 5.972x10^24 kilograms. The way to notice they are similar from these equations is they have the same amount of digits in the number. There densities are only 0.27g/cm^3 apart and once again earths density is greater. The density of earth is 5.51g/cm^3 and Venus’ is only 0.27g/cm^3 smaleer than Earths at

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