🪐 Planet
Venus
The hottest planet, hidden under thick clouds.
- Size
- 12,100 km across, about the same width as Earth
- A day lasts
- 117 Earth days, spinning backwards
- A year lasts
- 225 Earth days
- Moons
- None
- Average temperature
- 464 °C
- Gravity
- 0.91× Earth’s
- From the Sun
- 110 million km
📍 Where is it now?
Seen against the stars of Virgo, 41 million km from Earth. Its light takes 2 minutes to reach us.
Did you know?
- It is hotter than Mercury, because its thick air traps the heat.
- It spins backwards, so on Venus the Sun would rise in the west.
Compare Venus with EarthSide by side, to scale, in the app
More NASA photos of VenusStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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All of solar system
Mercury
The smallest planet, and the closest to the Sun.
Earth
Our home, the only world known to have life.
Mars
The red planet, with the tallest volcano in the solar system.
Jupiter
The biggest planet, with a storm larger than Earth.
Saturn
The ringed giant, light enough to float in water.
Uranus
The ice giant that rolls around the Sun on its side.