The surface of Venus is dominated by geologic features that include volcanoes, large impact craters, and aeolian erosion and sedimentation landforms. Venus has a topography reflecting its single, strong crustal plate, with a unimodal elevation distribution (over 90% of the surface lies wit...
This computer reconstruction of the surface of Venus was created from data from the Magellan spacecraft.... Magellan found many interesting surface features, including the large circular domes, typically 25...
The mapping of Venus refers to the process and results of human description of the geological features of the planet Venus. It involves surface radar images of Venus, construction of...
cover of clouds. Features in the clouds are difficult to see in... Because of the all-enveloping clouds, little was known about Venus’s surface, atmosphere, and evolution before the early...
The surface of Venus is covered by a dense atmosphere and presents clear evidence of former violent volcanic activity. It has shield and composite volcanoes similar to those found on Earth....
Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing volcanoes, and puffy clouds of sulfuric acid, uninhabitable Venus offers vital lessons about the potential for life on other plane...
PLANET Location · Inner Solar System · FIRST NASA MISSION · Mariner 2 ; TOTAL MISSIONS · 40+ · FUTURE NASA MISSIONS · 2
On Venus, plumes of superheated rock from near the planet's core may rise up intermittently, destroy patches of the planet's surface and create unique crown-shaped geologic features called coronae,...
mean distance from Sun, 108.2 million km (67.3 million mi, 0.723 AU) ; equatorial diameter, 12,103.6 km (7,522.4 mi), Earth × 0.949 ; mass (Earth = 1), 0.815 ; density, 5.25 g/cm ; axial period, 243.0 days ; axial inclination, 177.3° ; orbital period, 224.7 days ; orbital inclination, 3.4° ; orbital eccentricity, 0.007 ; number of moons, 0 ; atmospheric composition, 96% carbon dioxide, 3.5% nitrogen ; surface temperature (mean), 464°C (867°F) ; surface gravity (Earth=1), 0.903 ; escape velocity, 10.36 km/s (37,296 km/h, 23,180 mph) ; albedo, 0.76
The surface of Venus is usually covered from sight due to thick clouds, but NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured with clearest images of the planet's surface ever taken -- and the photos have shocked scientists.