Venus Venus Anala Mons is a mountain on Venus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anala Mons"
Aphrodite Terra is one of two main highland regions on the planet Venus. It is the larger of the two "continents" - about the size of South America, and is located along the equator of the planet. It was named after the Greek goddess of love and beauty. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aphrodite Terra"
(Arachnoid (astrogeology)) This article incorporates text from a public-domain NASA website. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arachnoid (astrogeology)"
A table with the aspects (upper conjunction, superior conjunction, elongations, etc.) of the planet Venus from 2005 to 2020. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aspects of Venus"
In 1983, the Venera 15 and 16 acquired more precise radar images and altimetry data for the northern latitudes of the planet. This was the first use of synthetic aperture radar on Venus. The images had a 1–2 kilometre (0.6–1.2 mile) resolution. The altimetry data obtained by the Venera missions had a resolution four times better than Pioneers. Venera-15 and 16 returned images of far greater quality than earth-based radar images, showing relief and texture absent from range-doppler imaging. From a highly eccentric polar orbit, the spacecraft recorded survey strips from the north pole down to 30 degrees latitude, during a 16-minute pass. The remander of the 24-hour orbit permitted the transmission of the 8 megabytes of information. Venus rotates 1.48 degrees every 24 hours, allowing the entire polar cap to be scanned during the mission, from November 11 1983 to July 10, 1984. This collection of radio holograms were processed into image strips and maps by SIMD math co-processors on a computer at the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics in Moscow. ...more on Wikipedia about "Geology of Venus"
Ishtar Terra is one of two main highland regions on the planet Venus. It is the smaller of the two "continents", and is located in the northern hemisphere. It is named after the Akkadian goddess Ishtar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ishtar Terra"
Lakshmi Planum is a plateau feature on the surface of Venus on the Western Ishtar Terra. It is named after Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lakshmi Planum"
The following table is a partial list of artificial objects on the surface of Venus. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of artificial objects on Venus"
This is a list of montes ( mountains, singular mons) on the planet Venus. Venusian mountains are all named after goddesses in the mythologies of various cultures, except for the Maxwell Montes. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of montes on Venus"
* Maxwell Montes 11km ...more on Wikipedia about "List of mountains on Venus by height"
Maxwell Montes is a mountain on the planet Venus, the highest point on the planet's surface. Located on Ishtar Terra, the more northern of the planet's two major highlands, it is 11km tall. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maxwell Montes"
Venus is the most prominent astronomical feature in Earth's morning and evening sky other than the Sun and Moon, and has been known since before recorded history. One of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, from the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal around 1600 BC, is a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus (which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna). The ancient Sumerians and Babylonians called Venus Dil-bat or Dil-i-pat; in Akkadia it was the special star of the mother-god Ishtar; and in Chinese it is Jīn-xīng (金星), the planet of the metal element. ...more on Wikipedia about "Observations and explorations of Venus"
Sedna Planitia is a large lowland area of Venus. It is thought to be lava-covered and similar to a lunar mare. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sedna Planitia"
A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Sun's disc. During a transit, Venus can be seen from the Earth as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transits of 2004 and 2012 last about six hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears much smaller because it is much further away from the Earth. Before modern astronomy, observations of transits of Venus helped scientists measure the distance between the Sun and the Earth using the method of parallax. ...more on Wikipedia about "Transit of Venus"
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. A terrestrial planet, it is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet", as the two are very similar in size and bulk composition. The planet Venus is also termed Lucifer when appearing as the morning star. ...more on Wikipedia about "Venus"
* In the Venus series of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Venus is a tropical world shielded from the heat of the sun by a perpetual cloud cover, home to a humanoid race whose technology is advanced in some respects and retarded in others. The native name is Amtor, and the portion depicted, largely confined to the southern hemisphere's temperate zone, is primarily oceanic, but includes two continents and a number of large islands. Vegetation tends to be gigantic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Venus in fiction"
The Venus Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a science fiction series of four novels and one novelette. Most of the stories were first serialized in Argosy, an American pulp magazine. It is sometimes known as the Carson Napier of Venus Series, after their fictional main character, Carson Napier. The novels, part of the planetary romance subgenre of science fiction, follow earthman Napier's fantastic adventures after he crash-lands on Venus, called "Amtor" by its human-like inhabitants. ...more on Wikipedia about "Venus series"
A Venus-crosser asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Venus. The known numbered Venus-crossers and outer-grazers (marked †) are listed below ( Mercury-crossers or grazers are marked ‡). ...more on Wikipedia about "Venus-crosser asteroid"
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