venus
金星
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plural Ve·nus·es for 2.
- : an ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty.
- : an exceptionally beautiful woman.
- : Archaeology. a statuette of a female figure, usually carved of ivory and typically having exaggerated breasts, belly, or buttocks, often found in Upper Paleolithic cultures from Siberia to France.
- : Astronomy. the planet second in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7,521 miles, a mean distance from the sun of 67.2 million miles, a period of revolution of 224.68 days, and no moons. It is the most brilliant planet in the solar system.
- : Chemistry Obsolete. copper.
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However, in the case of Venus’ flower basket, the evolutionary purpose of its incompressibility is unclear.
Perhaps next year will bring a clearer picture of what chemicals are and aren’t wafting through Venus’s upper atmosphere.
While proposed solutions to the other challenges of landing on Venus are close to doable, he says, this one remains the biggest hurdle.
Just a few years ago it seemed like Rocket Lab was going to be an up-and-comer in the launch world, and so they are today — in addition to going reusable, creating a low-cost satellite platform, and planning a mission to Venus.
If life does exist in the Venus clouds, it is highly likely to consist of immigrants from Earth.
Can you imagine flying to Venus in an Apollo-era ship based on the same technology, as some NASA people proposed?
Displays of malformations were obviously often strikingly offensive, none more so than the “Hottentot Venus.”
Venus Williams Why You Might Know Her: The other half of the famous Williams sister duo has seven majors in her career.
Sarah Hajney is an adorable little version of a Botticelli Venus.
Venus orbits the Sun within the habitable zone, and is only slightly smaller than Earth.
Cassini observed, by the position of certain spots, the revolution of the planet Venus on its axis.
See that silver spiral going out from Venus and around the table to the orbit of Saturn?
If it be true that Venus does not turn upon its axis, such is likely to be the case also with the planet Mercury.
Two of the fathers were Mars and Anchises; and there are several other legends about the loves of Venus.
Next beyond Mercury is Venus, a sphere only a little less in diameter than the earth.