Atmosphere
Mostly carbon dioxide beneath dense sulfuric-acid clouds.
Acquiring mission data
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Planet 02 · Terrestrial planet
Earth-sized, backwards-spinning, and catastrophically hot.
Venus is Earth's near-twin in size and a master class in how badly similar ingredients can diverge. A carbon-dioxide atmosphere, sulfuric-acid clouds, and a runaway greenhouse keep the surface hot enough to melt lead.
World profile
Mostly carbon dioxide beneath dense sulfuric-acid clouds.
Volcanic plains, mountains, tessera terrain, impact craters, and coronae.
About 872 °F (467 °C)
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Composition
Field notes
A Venus day is longer than its year.
Venus rotates backwards relative to most planets, so the Sun would rise in the west.
Magellan mapped about 98% of the surface through radar because ordinary cameras cannot see through the clouds.
Sourced image archive
Every image keeps its credit, capture date, description, and original source. Mission imagery links back into the same Andromeda mission catalog.
Venus portrait
A computer-simulated globe built mainly from Magellan radar mapping, with remaining gaps filled from Venera, Pioneer Venus, and Arecibo observations.
Connected mission archive
Flybys, orbiters, landers, atmospheric probes, rovers, launch missions, gravity assists, and system satellites are linked here when they exist in the Andromeda catalog.
Open mission browser →48 linked missions · showing 1–24
Sun · Orbiter
Solar Orbiter is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the ESA Plan program.
View in 3D map — Solar OrbiterPrimary facts source
NASA Science · Venus facts ↗
Deep space · Deep-space mission
BepiColombo is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the ESA Plan program.
View in 3D map — BepiColombo
Sun · Deep-space mission
Parker Solar Probe is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the SOLTP program.
View in 3D map — Parker Solar ProbeVenus · Planetary Science
NASA Venus orbiter planned to map the planet’s surface and investigate its geologic evolution.
View in 3D map — VERITASVenus · Planetary Science
India’s approved Venus orbiter, planned for launch in March 2028.
View in 3D map — Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM)Venus · Planetary Science
DAVINCI is NASA’s Venus mission that will descend through the atmosphere to measure composition, origin, evolution, and surface conditions.
Venus · Planetary Science
EnVision is ESA’s Venus orbiter mission for studying the atmosphere, surface, and geological activity of Earth’s sister planet.
Associations use destination records plus a curated cross-world manifest for flybys and gravity assists. Mission-name collisions such as Project Mercury and Saturn launch vehicles are deliberately kept with Earth unless they actually visited the planet. Technically obvious; historically necessary.
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