What is the surface of Venus like?

Answer 1

Scientists now say that it is volcanic, covered in magma and all sorts of poisonous substances.

Answer 2

"Our first efforts were to keep the public from learning about Venus. A very similar planet to Earth and it's population is very similar to us just technologically advanced. We have learned a lot from them starting with the Russian Venera 1 and US Mariner 2, we made Venus look like a lead melting, volcanic surface, spewing sulfuric acid into a pressurized atmosphere 90 times that of Earth. And as often the case we over did it and we wondered why nobody asked how a parachute survived a descent into 800-degree air."

Answer 3

Venus surface containsrolling plains with little relief. There are two highlands area in it.

Data from Magellan's imaging radar shows that much of the surface of Venus is covered by lava flows.

There are several large shield volcanoes. Recently announced findings indicate that Venus is still volcanically active.

There are no small craters on Venus. It seems that small meteoroids burn up in Venus' dense atmosphere before reaching the surface.

Answer 4

Depends where! Like the Earth Venus has many types of terrain. Although the basic type appears to lava plains. The surface temperature is a cool 400C it is dusk all the time and the air pressure s a bone crushing 90 Atmospheres.

Answer 5

I think it is interesting that, in the early 1960s, the consensus of opinion about Venus was that it was a somewhat warmer version of Earth - like, if a hot day on Earth is 90 degrees, then a hot day on Venus is 110 degrees. One of the first to theorize that Venus in reality is incredibly hot, basically an example of the greenhouse effect gone berzerk, was the late great Carl Sagan. Sagan was more than an infectious, if slightly goofy, lecturer - he was also one of the most brilliant scientists of our time.

Answer 6

It is hot. Blanketed under a cloud. The old science fiction writers thought it was watery and that creatures could live there. There was some pretty neat fiction about it.

Try science fiction Venus

Why not google something like Venus planet surface conditions

if you are a kid , add juvenile literature

and see what comes up??

Answer 7

very hot due to greenhouse effect. trapping suns heat that can't escape the thick clouds. i have seen a picture of the surface from a satellite/probe that landed there, before being crushed by the pressure. it appeared to be rocky, looked like a normal rocky planet surface.

Answer 8

It's hot and the planet resurfaces itself almost everyday! It's covered with pancake volcanoes and strawberry lava fields thus the surface is probably the youngest in the entire solar system.

Answer 9

Really Freakin' Hot™.

Answer 10

Hotter'n a two peckered polecat.