Planet Report: Venus By: Kim Mr. Montgomery Period 5 Venus: The Boiling Planet         A planet with surface temperatures that can melt lead and atmospheric pressure that can crush a man where he stand- Venus is the most hostile of the terrestrial planets. Though scientists think that this barren rock may once have been much like Earth.         Venus is known as Earth's "sister planet", they both share similarities in: size, mass, density and volume. Both formed around …showed first 75 words of 515 total…

…showed last 75 words of 515 total…were a vast majority of interesting facts that were available about Venus, though some may have already been mentioned - The year on Venus is shorter than its day, Venus spins slowly retrograde (backwards west to east), it is the hottest planet in the solar system. Venus has a very dense atmosphere consisting mostly of carbon dioxide with clouds of sulfuric acid droplets. At the surface, the atmospheric pressure is 92 times that of the Earth's.