World

Venus

Venus is a world in the solar system, about 12 104 km across.

Key facts

Diameter

12 104 km

Goes round

The Sun

See it from here

You can see this one with your own eyes.

How the map draws it

Lit as a camera exposed for its own sunlight would show it · seen from far off it is a light at its computed brightness: the glow is how a camera records a point too bright to resolve · its air is drawn 6 times thicker than it is so that it shows at this size, and the colour of its haze is illustrative · the glow round its edge and past its day side stands for a deep haze; how thick it is drawn and how far it reaches are illustrative; in the Film look its cloud bands are drawn with 2 times the contrast its map has, as ultraviolet cameras see them (to an eye they are nearly plain), and the Measured look shows the map as it is; its ground, by radar, is in relief from Magellan’s altimeter, drawn 6 times steeper and taller than measured.