Vacation Announcement
I will be on vacation from June 2nd through June 9th.
If anyone would like to volunteer to post APOD during that time, please FReepmail me.
Otherwise the APOD will not be posted as I will be visiting relatives in California.
Venus - the kind of place I'd like to send all the liberals. Call it a preview of coming attractions.
| Venus Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Mass (kg) | 4.869e+24 |
| Mass (Earth = 1) | .81476 |
| Equatorial radius (km) | 6,051.8 |
| Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | .94886 |
| Mean density (gm/cm^3) | 5.25 |
| Mean distance from the Sun (km) | 108,200,000 |
| Mean distance from the Sun (Earth = 1) | 0.7233 |
| Rotational period (days) | -243.0187 |
| Orbital period (days) | 224.701 |
| Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | 35.02 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0068 |
| Tilt of axis (degrees) | 177.36 |
| Orbital inclination (degrees) | 3.394 |
| Equatorial surface gravity (m/sec^2) | 8.87 |
| Equatorial escape velocity (km/sec) | 10.36 |
| Visual geometric albedo | 0.65 |
| Magnitude (Vo) | -4.4 |
| Mean surface temperature | 482°C |
| Atmospheric pressure (bars) | 92 |
| Atmospheric composition Carbon dioxide Nitrogen
carbon monoxide, argon, helium, neon, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen fluoride. |
96% 3+% |
Venus Introduction contains lots of images and information on Venus.
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