Venus is not a gas planet, but a rocky planet. The interior of Venus is made of a metallic iron core that's roughly 2,400 miles (6,000 km) wide. Venus' molten rocky mantle is roughly 1,200 miles ...

It has the longest days of any planet in the solar system. A full rotation on its axis, also known as a sidereal day, takes 243 Earth days. A year on Venus – the time it takes for the planet to make ...

Because Venus rotates extremely slowly on its axis, a single day on the planet is equivalent to 243 Earth days, but it takes Venus 225 Earth days to orbit the sun. So, yes, a year on Venus is ...

Other Venus planet facts ... Each Venus year lasts 224.7 Earth days – that’s a single orbit of the Sun. On Earth, a single full rotation takes 24 hours, which is a day.

Venus is sometimes called the 'Twin Planet' because it is similar to Earth. ... Venus also has the slowest rotation in the solar system meaning 1 day on Venus is the same as 243 days on Earth.

A day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days (that's how long it takes Venus to make one rotation), while a year on Venus (its revolution period around the sun) is shorter, at just 224.7 Earth days.

Venus is Earth's next-door neighbor and could be Earth's twin, if not for the sulfuric acid clouds and hellish surface temperatures.

Orbital oddball. The only planet named after a female figure, Venus is a celestial oddball. Though its rocks are shades of grey, its atmosphere imparts an eerie orange glow to the landscape.

Venus was the goddess of beauty in ancient Rome and her brightly shining planetary namesake lives up to that hype. When Venus is in the evening sky, you notice her. When she is in the predawn sky ...

Venus, the second planet from the sun and Earth's nearest planetary neighbor is an oddity in many ways. The hot, hellish planet spins backward and might even host life in its impenetrable clouds.