Venus

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Venus : the planet second in order from the sun — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Encyclopedia

Venus is the third smallest planet in the Solar System, it is a terrestrial planet, and it 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 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 Earth in light. It may have had water oceans in the past, but after these evaporated the temperature rose under a runaway greenhouse effect. Because of the lethal surface conditions, the planet is sometimes referred to as Earth’s “evil twin.” — Wikipedia

Venus (Encyclopædia Britannica)

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Inspiration

NASA Goddard (YouTube Channel)
NASA Goddard (Official Website)

NASA Langley Research Center (YouTube Channel)
NASA Langley Research Center (Official Website)

High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC, Space Mission Analysis Branch, NASA Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate)
High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (Wikipedia)

Note: This is a 360° video — press and hold to explore it!

Home Run Pictures (YouTube Channel)
Home Run Pictures (Official Website)

NASA’s Eyes is a freely available suite of computer visualization applications created by the Visualization Technology Applications and Development Team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to render scientifically accurate views of the planets studied by JPL missions and the spacecraft used in that study. — Wikipedia

Venus (NASA’s Eyes, NASA’s JPL & Cal Tech)

Solar System Treks are online, browser-based portals that allow you to visualize, explore, and analyze the surfaces of other worlds using real data returned from a growing fleet of spacecraft. You can view the worlds through the eyes of many different instruments, pilot real-time 3D flyovers above mountains and into craters, and conduct measurements of surface features. Venus Trek uses a collection of data from NASA’s Magellan Mission. — Venus Trek (Solar System Treks, NASA)

Venus Trek (Solar System Treks, NASA)

Articles about Venus (Big Think)

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Innovation

Science

NASA Goddard (YouTube Channel)
NASA Goddard (Official Website)

NASA (YouTube Channel)
NASA (Official Website)

DAVINCI: Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
VERITAS: Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, And Spectroscopy (NASA Science)

EnVision (ESA, NASA)

Venus (NASA Science)

Venus Resources (Staci L. Tiedeken, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

Venus Videos (ViewSpace, Space Telescope Science Institute)

Venus, Cloudy with a Chance of Life (Planetary Society)

Venus (Eric Weisstein’s World of Astronomy, Wolfram Research)
Venus (Wolfram Alpha)

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Preservation

History

The First Time We Saw All of Venus: The Magellan Mission (SciShow Space, YouTube Video)

Venus: Exploration (NASA Science)

Library

DDC: 523.42 Venus (Library Thing)
Subject: Venus (Library Thing)

Subject: Venus (Open Library)

LCC: QB 621 Venus (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: QB 621 Venus (Library of Congress)
Subject: Venus (Library of Congress)

Subject: Venus (WorldCat)

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Participation

Education

Venus – Level 1 (StarChild, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA)
Venus – Level 2 (StarChild, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA)

All About Venus (Space Place, NASA)
Venus (Cosmos4Kids)

Venus (CrashCourse Astronomy, YouTube Video)

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

Community

Organization

Mercury and Venus Section (British Astronomical Association)

News

Venus (Nova Research Highlights, American Astronomical Society)
Venus (EurekaAlert, AAAS)
Venus (Astronomy Magazine)
Venus (JSTOR)
Venus (Science Daily)
Venus (Phys.org)

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