Terrestrial Planet
Venus
Venus is currently about 44,659,318 kilometres from Earth, or 0.299 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 2.5 minutes out. It is 0.726 astronomical units from the Sun.
This page is about Venus itself. For where it is in the sky tonight, how far from the Sun it currently appears and when to look, see Where is Venus right now.
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
- 44,659,318 km (0.299 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 108,587,533 km (0.726 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 2.5 minutes
The body
- Mean radius
- 6,052 km
- Day
- 243 Earth days
- Year
- 225 days
- Surface
- 465 °C