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    Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. It orbits the Sun every 224.7 Earth days and rotates in the opposite direction of all planets except Uranus, so its sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Venus is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" due to their similar size and composition, but has a much different atmosphere consisting of over 96% carbon dioxide and a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead.

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    Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. It orbits the Sun every 224.7 Earth days and rotates in the opposite direction of all planets except Uranus, so its sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Venus is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" due to their similar size and composition, but has a much different atmosphere consisting of over 96% carbon dioxide and a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead.

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    Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. It orbits the Sun every 224.7 Earth days and rotates in the opposite direction of all planets except Uranus, so its sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Venus is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" due to their similar size and composition, but has a much different atmosphere consisting of over 96% carbon dioxide and a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead.

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    Venus 

    is the second planet from the Sun. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.
    As the brightest natural object in Earth's night sky after the Moon, Venus can cast shadows and can
    be, on rare occasions, visible to the naked eye in broad daylight.[17][18] Venus lies within Earth's orbit,
    and so never appears to venture far from the Sun, either setting in the west just after dusk or rising
    in the east a little while before dawn. Venus orbits the Sun every 224.7 Earth days.[19] It has a synodic
    day length of 117 Earth days and a sidereal rotation period of 243 Earth days. As a consequence, it
    takes longer to rotate about its axis than any other planet in the Solar System, and does so in
    the opposite direction to all but Uranus. This means the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
    [20]
     Venus does not have any moons, a distinction it shares only with Mercury among the planets in
    the Solar System.[21]
    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 about 92 times the sea
    level pressure of Earth, or roughly the pressure at 900 m (3,000 ft) underwater on Earth. Even
    though Mercury is closer to the Sun, Venus has the hottest surface of any planet in the Solar
    System, with a mean temperature of 737 K (464 °C; 867 °F). Venus is shrouded by an opaque layer
    of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid, preventing its surface from being seen from space
    in visible light. It may have had water oceans in the past,[22][23] but these would have vaporized as the
    temperature rose under a runaway greenhouse effect.[24] The water has probably photodissociated,
    and the free hydrogen has been swept into interplanetary space by the solar wind because of the
    lack of a planetary magnetic field.[25]
    As one of the brightest objects in the sky, Venus has been a major fixture in human culture for as
    long as records have existed. It has been made sacred to gods of many cultures, and has been a
    prime inspiration for writers and poets as the "morning star" and "evening star". Venus was the first
    planet to have its motions plotted across the sky, as early as the second millennium BC.[26]
    Its proximity to Earth has made Venus a prime target for early interplanetary exploration. It was the
    first planet beyond Earth visited by a spacecraft (Mariner 2 in 1962), and the first to be successfully
    landed on (by Venera 7 in 1970). Venus's thick clouds render observation of its surface impossible in
    visible light, and the first detailed maps did not emerge until the arrival of the Magellan orbiter in
    1991. Plans have been proposed for rovers or more complex missions, but they are hindered by
    Venus's hostile surface conditions. The possibility of life on Venus has long been a topic of
    speculation, and in recent years has received active research.

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