Earth's Twin

Venus, also known as Earth's twin, was the planet I was assigned last week to research during class. I knew only a handful of facts, mainly that Venus was the second planet. I also knew that Venus was named after the Roman god, Venus.

In my head I envisioned Venus as a blue planet with lots of water and for whatever reason, peaceful. As I did my research for class I realized just how wrong I really was. Very, very wrong, for those of us counting.

In my research I found a whole list of things I did not know:

• Venus is called Earth's twin because they are relatively the same size and mass.
• Venus is the brightest planet and can be seen plainly from the sky, even without a telescope. 
• Venus has many volcanoes, it is almost entirely made up of volcanoes. 
• There is no water on Venus! The atmosphere is so hot the water would come to a boil. 
• Venus rotates backwards, unlike any of the other planets.
• Venus' rotation is extremely slow, one Venus day takes an entire Earth year. 
• Since the rotation is backwards, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. 

It was clear that I did not know much about Venus. I found this clip about Venus and its atmosphere, which I found extremely educating!

I've always loved space and I love mythology.
Learning more about Venus just verified my love for learning about space and mythology!