Venus means:
In astronomy mythology, Venus was the Roman goddess of love and beauty. In Greek her name was Aphrodite.
How much would you weigh on Venus?
Because Venus and the Earth are almost the exact same size, you would weigh almost exactly the same on either planet. If you weighed 70 pounds on Earth you would weigh 63 pounds on Venus.
The Planet:
Venus is a hostile planet. Its thick cloud cover makes it impossible to see the surface, and also traps much of the Sun's heat. This extra heat gives Venus the hottest average temperature of any of the planets.
In many ways Venus is similar to the Earth. It has active volcanoes, venusquakes, mountains and valleys. The major difference is that Venus's atmosphere makes the planet far too hot for life.
Another difference is in the way that Venus gets rid of the extra heat in its core. As the Earth cools down, heat is released from its core through volcanoes, hot springs, and fissures in the ocean crust. New evidence suggests that while Venus also exhibits some of these features, that it has another very unique way of getting rid of heat.
About once every few hundred million years, some scientists believe that the entire surface of the planet is melted from below, forming a huge ocean of lava across the entire surface of the planet. As it cools, heat escapes into outer space.
Moons:
Venus has no moons.
Because Venus and the Earth are the same size, scientists call Venus Earth's sister planet. For a long time most scientists thought that Venus probably had plants, animals, and possibly even people. However because Venus is so hot we now know that it is impossible for anything to live there.
