Rotation | Planets: Who they look like | Missions and Ship(s) | Planets: What they are composed of | Atmosphere, wait atmoswhere? |
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What is Venus
This planet’s year is 255 Earth days while one day on the planet is equivalent to 8 Earth Months
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What is Venus
This Planet is Named after this Roman god of beauty and love
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What is 50
The Mariner 10 mapped this percent of Mercury’s surface
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What is Sulfuric Acid
Composes the clouds that surround Venus which block sunlight from reaching the planet
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What is Absent
This is the state of Mercury’s atmosphere
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What is Retrograde Rotation
This mean that on Venus the sun rises in the West and sets in the East
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What is Mercury
Hermes Roman equivalent and the name of this planet
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What is Venus
The Magellan mapped only 10% of this planet’s surface in the 1990’s
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What is Carbon Dioxide
The abundant population of Volcanoes on Venus serves as natural spring sources for this gas
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What is Carbon Dioxide
This makes up 95% of the Venusian atmosphere
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What is Vertical
With a tilt of 2.11*, Mercury’s tilt is nearly this
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What is Death Star
Gray and bumpy, Mercury can often be confused with this Star Wars weapon
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What is Global Warming
The Magellan was sent to Venus to observe how badly this climate condition recently discovered on Earth could get. Caused on Venus by the Runaway Greenhouse effect
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What are comets
These are likely the cause of ice at the poles of Mercury
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What is the Greenhouse Gas Effect
This surface temperature on Venus is 900*F
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What is Weight
On Mercury this unit of mass relating to your body will change compared to on Earth
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What is Crater
Due to the lack of atmosphere (and weather) Mercury’s surface is littered impacts caused by these
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What is Caloris Basin
Mariner 10 discovered this on the surface of Mercury. The largest of its kind in the solar system with 900 in diameter
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What is Sister Planet
Closeness in composition, gravity, density, and size names Venus this type of planet compared to Earth
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What is Erosion
Due to a lack of weather, Mercury is absent of this natural process on Earth which cover, carves, and shapes the geography on Earth
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What is Slug
This does not change planet to planet, and is the common unit of mass in the United States
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What is Lava
A close look at Venus and you’ll discover little to no crater impacts due to this liquid covering it
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What is Magellan
Discovered the long term effects of Global Warming
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What are earthquakes
Caused by large craters hitting the surface of Mercury, these can be strong enough to have geographic effect on the other side of Mercury
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What is Zero (bc the atmospheric pressure it so heavy)
Lightning hits this many time on Venus per year
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