Terrestrial Planet
Venus
Venus is currently about 88,220,122 kilometres from Earth, or 0.590 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 4.9 minutes out. It is 0.728 astronomical units from the Sun.
Earth’s scorching twin, wrapped in thick clouds of sulfuric acid and a runaway greenhouse atmosphere that makes it the hottest planet in the system.
No spacecraft currently operate at Venus. DAVINCI, VERITAS, and EnVision are in development.
Right now
- Distance from Earth
- 88,220,122 km (0.590 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 108,923,289 km (0.728 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 4.9 minutes
The body
- Mean radius
- 6,052 km
- Day
- 243 Earth days
- Year
- 225 days
- Surface
- 465 °C