SOME DATA ON VENUS

Diameter: 12 104 kilometres (94.9% of Earths diameter)
Distance from Sun: 108.2 million km
Minimum distance from Earth: Slightly less than 40 million km
Eccentricity of orbit: 0.0068 (orbit of Earth: 0.017)
Inclination of orbit: 3.39 degrees
Average surface temperature: 464 degrees Celsius
Atmosphere: Very dense, surface pressure more than 90 Atmospheres.
Atmospheric compostion: 96.5% CO2, 3.5% N2, 0.003% water vapour
Venus Day: 243.01 Earth days (retrograd rotation)
Inclination of rotational axis to the orbit: 177.4 degrees
Length of year: 224.70 Earth days
Age of surface: About 800 million years
Average density: 5.243 times density of water (density of the Earth is 5,515)
Mass: 4.869 * 10²⁴ kg = 0.815 times mass of Earth
Average velocity in orbit: 35 km/s = 126 000 km/h

You can find out more about Venus on "The nine planets"

CONTACT INFORMATION - PRESS CONTACT KONTAKTINFORMASJON