I have a project to do for astronomy class and we have to pick a planet and make a brochure about it to make people want to go there and visit can you tell me some stuff that I can put down you can do on venus even though it's not for real. and we cannot change the conditon of the planet.
2006-12-17 07:42:01 · 4 answers · asked by MMN 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Here are some things to put in your brochure:
The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love, and most of its surface features are named after famous and mythological women.
It shows evidence of extensive volcanism, and some of its volcanoes may still be active today.
In size and mass, it is very similar to the Earth, and is often described as its 'twin'.
Visit Maxwell Montes, the highest mountain on Venus which lies on Ishtar Terra. Its peak lies 11 km above Venus' average surface elevation; in contrast, Earth's highest mountain, Mount Everest, rises to just under 9 km above sea level.
It possesses some 167 giant volcanoes that are over 100 km across. The only volcanic complex of this size on Earth is the Big Island of Hawaii.
Venus has an extremely thick atmosphere, which consists mainly of carbon dioxide and a small amount of nitrogen. The enormously CO2-rich atmosphere generates a strong greenhouse effect that raises the surface temperature to over 400 °C. This makes Venus' surface hotter than Mercury's, even though Venus is nearly twice as distant from the Sun.
Studies have suggested that several billion years ago Venus' atmosphere was much more like Earth's than it is now, and that there were probably substantial quantities of liquid water on the surface, but a runaway greenhouse effect was caused by the evaporation of that original water, which generated a critical level of greenhouse gases in its atmosphere. Venus is thus an example of an extreme case of climate change, making it a useful tool in climate change studies.
Venus rotates once every 243 days – by far the slowest rotation period of any of the major planets. To an observer on the surface of Venus the time from one sunrise to the next would be 116.75 days.
2006-12-17 13:00:15 · answer #1 · answered by jd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Venus, it's hotter than shaving cream...be nice and clean.
Shave every day and you'll always look keen.
Let's go surfing, now. Surfing on lava, wow! Come on safari with me...
Acid rain on roses, and ashes on volcanoes.
Bright molten lava, and warm smoky craters...
>Shaving cream
>Surfing Safari
>My Favorite Things
2006-12-17 10:12:04 · answer #2 · answered by arbiter007 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about that for a little info...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus
Hope it'll help. Good luck.
2006-12-17 09:54:23 · answer #3 · answered by DNA-Groove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a volcanologists dream.
2006-12-17 11:15:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋