Venus

Venus is the second planet orbiting the Sun in the Sol System. It orbits the sun in a retrograde manner at an average distance of .723 AUs. It has a year of 224.7 earth days and a day lasting 243 earth days. It has mean surface temperature of 735 degrees Kelvin (863.33 degrees Farenheit and 461.85 degrees Celsius). Venus has 92 times the atmospheric pressure of Earth.

Venus in Science Fiction

Like Mars, people in the first half of the twentieth century believed that Venus might be habitable and be home to various lifeforms before soviet probes descended into the Venusian atmosphere. In praticular, Venus was imaged to be covered by tropical rainforest.