The Venus comes the earth, to the moon, from all heavenly bodies next, so that she shines also according to bright. You brilliant feature as tomorrow and evening star make it therefore a particularly desire-worth object. The Venus has a rotation time of 243 days. The distance to the sun amounts to 108,2 Mill. km Their diameter amounts to 12'104 km. The modern astronomy showed that the surface of the planet does not have to do anything with the goddess of the love. The Venus is everything different than dear it is purest glow hell, on their surface temperatures between 400 –,500 degrees prevails and an air pressure, which is higher 90mal than on the earth's surface. The first space probe on the Venus landed was destroyed after some hours. The reason for this heat is that the atmosphere from 98% carbon dioxide exists. On the Venus see we the greenhouse –effect which one also on earth feared. Carbon dioxide did not leave the characteristic the broken in light however again out. Thus the Venusoberflaeche heats itself extremely. Whom the content increases to terrestrial carbon dioxide (at present 0,033%), insists the large danger, similarly effects on earth arises with not yet well-known consequences. The surface is well-known only by radar measurements.
August Keller
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