The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Venus:
Venus – second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It has the longest rotation period (243 days) of any planet in the Solar System and rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets. It has no natural satellite. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. It is the second-brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows. Because Venus orbits within Earth's orbit it is an inferior planet. Venus is a terrestrial planet and is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similar size, mass, proximity to the Sun, and bulk composition. It is radically different from Earth in other respects. It has the densest atmosphere of the four terrestrial planets, consisting of more than 96% carbon dioxide. The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 92 times that of Earth, or roughly the pressure found underwater on Earth.
Classification of Venus
Astronomical object Gravitationally rounded object Planet Planet of the Solar System Inferior planet Inner planet Terrestrial planet
Location of Venus
Milky Way Galaxy – barred spiral galaxy Orion Arm – a spiral arm of the Milky Way Solar System – the Sun and the objects that orbit it, including 8 planets, the planet second-closest to the Sun being Venus Orbit of Venus
Features of Venus
Atmosphere of Venus Geology of Venus Geological features on Venus Arachnoid Coronae on Venus Craters on Venus Montes on Venus Terrae on Venus Volcanism on Venus Orbit of Venus Quadrangles on Venus
History of Venus
History of Venus
Exploration of Venus
Observations and explorations of Venus Artificial objects on Venus
Flybys and direct missions to explore Venus
Venera Venera 1 Venera 2 Venera 3 Venera 4 Venera 5 Venera 6 Venera 7 Venera 8 Venera 9 Venera 10 Venera 11 Venera 12 Venera 13 Venera 14 Venera 15 Venera 16 Mariner program Mariner 2 Mariner 5 Mariner 10 Zond program Zond 1 Pioneer Venus project Vega program Vega 1 Vega 2 Galileo spacecraft Magellan spacecraft Cassini–Huygens Venus Express MESSENGER Akatsuki spacecraft IKAROS Shin'en
Cancelled missions to explore Venus
TMK Manned Venus Flyby
Future of Venus exploration
Colonization of Venus Terraforming of Venus
Proposed missions to explore Venus
Venera-D Venus In-Situ Explorer Venus Entry Probe Shukrayaan-1
Venus in popular culture
Venus in fiction Venusians
See also
Outline of astronomy Outline of the Solar System Outline of space exploration
Ashen light Cytherean Hesperus Neith
References
External links
Venus profile at NASA's Solar System Exploration site Missions to Venus and Image catalog at the National Space Science Data Center Soviet Exploration of Venus and Image catalog at Mentallandscape.com Venus page at The Nine Planets Transits of Venus at NASA.gov Geody Venus, a search engine for surface features
Cartographic resources Map-a-Planet: Venus by the U.S. Geological Survey Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Venus by the International Astronomical Union Venus crater database by the Lunar and Planetary Institute Map of Venus by Eötvös Loránd University