Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun,orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days, its is the 6th largest planet and the 2nd largest out of the 4 rock planets. Venus atmosphere is alot warmer than Earth because the thick cloud that cover venus make the warm air hardly escape from the atmosphere. Including the lava from the volcano it make Venus even warmer, the atmosphere is very hot that it might take few month for the lava from the volcano to cool down.

There are around 3 billions lightning strike the earth every year but there are 0 lightning stike Venus because of the thick cloud that block the lightning to from hitting Venus's ground, instead the lightning will hit the lower level of cloud.

Venus size is around 3000km in diameter smaller than the Earth's.

Venus is 96% carbon dioxide and 3% nutrogen

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