Venus
Venus ♀
Venus is named for the Roman god of love and beauty due to its brightness to the ancient Romans. It is the only planet named after a female goddess. Venus is the second closest planet to the Sun, being 67 million miles (0.72 Astronomical Units) away. It has the slowest rotation out of all the planets, with a single day on Venus taking 243 Earth days. Since one year on the planet takes 225 Earth days, Venus and Mercury are the only planets in the solar system in which its days are longer than its years. Venus also has a backwards axis, meaning the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east, the opposite of what we see on Earth. Venus and Uranus are the only two planets in the solar system that have a rotation like this.
(NASA)
Click on the planet to see if it's visible tonight!
Find it on Google Street View! (Venus is the second boulder from Albertus Magnus Hall)
