♀︎Venus

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Statistics

Orbital radius

110 million km from the Sun (0.7 times the distance of the Earth from the Sun)

Orbital period

225 Earth days (0.62 of an Earth year)

Diameter

12,000 km (0.9 times the diameter of the Earth)

Rotational period

243 Earth days (a Venerian day is longer than a Venerian year)

Mass

81% of the mass of the Earth

Surface gravity

about nine-tenths of the gravitational force on Earth

Albedo

0.65 (the highest of any planet — the result of the thick cloud layer around Venus)

Moons

Venus has no moons.

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