Mercury closest to Sun, small terrestrial planet

1
Mercury closest to Sun, small terrestrial
planet
2
Venus the Earths sister planet
Cloud-covered surface
Slow and Retrograde rotation rotation period
243d day on Venus revolution around Sun
225d yr on Venus
Diameter --- 0.95 Earth Mass --- 0.8
Earth Density --- 5.2 gm/cm3
3
Atmosphere and Greenhouse Effect
Atmosphere CO2 -- 96.5
N2 -- 3.5
Clouds SO2, H2S, and droplets of sulfuric acid
4
Venusian Surface mapped by radar
5
Lander image
6
Mercator projection map of surface features
based on radar mapping
Named surface features
7
(No Transcript)