It's a bird! It's a plane! Oh…it's just Venus. Venus has been the object of most UFO sightings. Venus is a very dangerous, but adventurous choice for travel. You would never guess that the planet named after the goddess of love and beauty, would be mostly a rocky desert with an atmosphere that can crush the skull of a human being. Venus exemplifies a planet affected by "runaway" greenhouse effect. Water or its vapor is hard to find.

If there were any oceans on the planet, it evaporated into the atmosphere splitting the oxygen to sink into the crust, and the hydrogen to flee into space. Venus fries from the sun under twice as much solar radiation as Earth. It has the hottest resulting surface temperature of all the other planets in the solar system. Venus can be hot as 895 degrees Fahrenheit. Its nights are as cold as negative 274 degrees Fahrenheit. Make sure you stay back and pay attention because the volcanic Venus has some lava action in effect. Lava flows around Sif Mons and the variations in the sulfur dioxide indicate volcanic activity. Venus takes a lot of pressure. Its dense CO2 atmosphere pressure is 95 bars greater than Earth's one bar of pressure. If you plan to step off of the ship make sure you are wearing a special pressure buster suit.

Despite the dangerous atmosphere of Venus, the planet has been seen as the lucky morning star during ancient times. The morning star was named Hesperus, which rose with the sun. Venus was thought to be two different stars a long time ago. That star that appeared during sunset was named Phosphorus, or Lucifer. These "two" stars were seen as signs and omens. A man would continue on his journey if he saw Hesperus, because it meant fortune. Written works allude to the evening star before a death occurs. In actuality, their good sign was also their bad omen. Venus has its chance to appear at the beginning or the end of the day because it is so close to the sun and capable of reflecting its sunlight. In fact, once every four days, Venus is the brightest object in the sky, next to the sun or moon.

Venus is a little more than twice the size of Mercury. Its diameter is 7,521 miles long, which is 95% of Earth. Venus has a mass that is 82% of the Earth's. It has an orbit of 225 Earth days, and it has a rotating time of 241 days in the direction opposite to the Earth's rotational direction. Although, it takes a really long time for the planet to rotate once, the light yellow clouds and gaseous sulfuric acidic atmosphere spins around the planet at high speeds. When it's near Earth, it shows only one side of itself because Venus's synodic year is around five solar days long. Perhaps you might want to travel to Venus in the years 2004 or 2012, because that is when rare transits across the face of the sun will happen. This occurs only in pairs at a time, after intervals that are longer than a one hundred-year period. On our trip, be prepared to stay for a while, because this is the only planet you can encounter with a year (225 Earth days) that is shorter than its day (241 Earth days). We suggest you bring a change of clothes.