Venus’ atmosphere was discovered in 1761 by a Russian academician named Mikhail Lomonosov. The atmosphere of Venus is hotter and denser than the atmosphere of Earth. Its atmosphere is filled with clouds that are made up of sulfuric acid and is opaque in color. Because of this you cannot observe the Venetian Surface. Sulfuric acid […]
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Jupiter, the fifth and largest in our Solar System is comprised mostly of helium and hydrogen. Since these elements are the very same stuff that we would find in the Sun as in other stars, many people often wonder why this planet is not classified as such. The explanation for this is simple; Jupiter is
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Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. The mass of Jupiter is 2.5 times larger than all of the planet’s masses combined. Its diameter is eleven times larger than that of the earth. Despite this the Earth is significantly denser than Jupiter. This is because the volume of Jupiter is equivalent to 1,321
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Saturn has long fascinated people because of the mystique of its rings, which circle the planet’s equator and make it one of the most visually beautiful sights in our Solar System. These rings are composed of bands of small water ice-coated particles and are 250,000 km wide but only as thin as a few tens
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Uranus makes its way around the Sun once every 84 years (a year on Uranus is equivalent to 84 Earth years). Its average distance from it would be around 3 billion km. The intensity of the sunlight that reaches the planet is about 1/400 of that on Earth.
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Earth is the third smallest planet in the Solar System and is the third planet from the sun. It is the densest planet and is the largest of the four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and the dwarf planet Ceres).
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Although Uranus is not the farthest planet from the Sun, it is the coldest planet in the Solar System. Like its neighbor, Neptune, Uranus is an ice giant, meaning it does not have a solid surface and what is called its ‘surface’ is actually a layer of clouds that lies above what may be a
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Mars distance from the Sun is 230 million km and its orbital period is equal to 687 Earth days. For this planet, the solar day is only a bit longer than that of the Earth’s day which is 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds. An entire Martian year would equal 1.8809 in Earth years.
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Mars is ten times less massive than that of Earth. It is the second smallest planet in the Solar System. The mass of Mars is 7.08 x 1020 tons or 6.42 X 1020 metric tons. Mars total density is 3.933 grams/cubic centimeter. The diameter of Mars is 6,792 kilometers. To illustrate these characteristics, Mars density
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Venus is the Roman goddess of love and so it is appropriate that she shares her name with the hottest planet in the Solar System. The average surface temperature of the planet is 735° Kelvin or 460° Celsius; in contrast, the average surface temperature of Mercury, which is 50% closer to the sun, is 420°
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