02 · terrestrial
Venus
A world wrapped in acid cloud. The surface is inferred; what we see is weather, rotating backwards against the orbit.
- Distance from Sol
- 108 m km
- Surface gravity
- 8.87 m/s²
- Day length
- 243 earth d
- Mean temperature
- 464 °C
- Orbital period
- 225 days
Atmosphere
96.5% CO₂, surface pressure 92 bar. Cloud decks of sulphuric acid at 50–70 km. Super-rotating winds circle the planet in four Earth days while the ground below takes 243.
Notes
The rotation is retrograde — the Sun rises in the west, when it rises at all through the cloud. Magellan mapped the surface in radar. Maxwell Montes stands 11 km above the mean.
Illustrative scale · orbital distances compressed. Not an ephemeris.