Your Age on Planet Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love. As seen from Earth, Venus is the second brightest object in the sky after the Moon. Like Mercury, Venus is an inner planet and is therefore always relatively close to the Sun, Venus is only visible for half to 4 hours after sunset or before sunrise (depending on the planet's elongation). That is why Venus is also called the evening star or morning star. In ancient times these two apparitions were sometimes interpreted as separate objects: Lucifer the morning star and Hesperus the evening star.

Venus is a terrestrial planet and is almost identical in size, mass and composition to Earth. Venus has the densest atmosphere of any body in the Solar System. That atmosphere consists mainly of carbon dioxide. A thick layer of clouds of sulfuric acid surrounds the planet, obscuring its surface from space. The thick atmosphere forms a highly insulating layer that creates an extremely strong greenhouse effectcares. Due to the high temperature on the surface, liquid water is not possible on Venus; if it ever existed, it evaporated and then escaped the planet's gravity. Venus is a volcanically active planet, but unlike Earth, there is no plate tectonics. Venus has a very weak magnetic field unlike Earth.

Venus orbits the Sun every 224.701 days at an average speed of 35.02 km/s. The eccentricity of the orbit is very small, only 0.006772, so that the orbit is almost a circle. The average distance from the Sun is 108 million km. Venus is the closest planet to Earth, in inferior conjunction (its position in its orbit exactly between the Earth and the Sun) its distance from Earth is about 41 million km. Venus reaches that position every 584 Earth days. The orbital plane has an inclination of 3.39° to the slope of the Earth.

Unlike the moon, which is completely dark during New Moon, Venus sees an annular halo when exactly between the sun and Earth. This is because Venus, unlike the moon, has a dense atmosphere, in which light is refracted slightly further than the illuminated half of the planet.

The precise value of the period of rotation measured by Magellan was 243.0185 days with an uncertainty of 1.5 minutes. Subsequent observations by Venus Express yielded a period of 6.5 minutes longer. The delay would be due to a transfer of torque to the atmosphere.

The specific mass (density) of Venus is 5.24 g/cm³. The escape velocity from the surface of Venus is 10.36 km/s.

Venus is always hidden under a very thick cloud cover of fine droplets of sulfuric acid mixed with aerosols and sulfur particles. In the clouds, a cycle of chemical reactions, called the sulfur cycle, occurs that is photochemically driven. Seen from above, this ensures great clarity because the cloud cover reflects a lot of sunlight. At the bottom, the cloud cover creates a violent greenhouse effect, causing the temperature on Venus to rise. The sun and the starry night sky are therefore never visible from the planet's surface. The average temperature is around 460 °C even higher than on Mercury. The yellow/orange cloud cover orbits the planet faster than it orbits itself, with wind speeds of up to 360 km/h.

The atmosphere of Venus is very dense and consists mostly (96%) of carbon dioxide, further amplifying the greenhouse effect caused by the cloud cover. The high pressure (more than 90 bar, so more than 90 times the air pressure on Earth), the high temperature and the carbon dioxide concentration make every form of life on Venus known to us impossible. There has been speculation about the possibility of life on Venus.

Presumably, Venus does not have tectonic plates like Earth does, but due to large-scale volcanic eruptions, the crust is in continuous motion and the surface is regularly flooded with lava. That is the most likely explanation for the lack of impact craters. Yet most volcanoes are inactive and the volcanism is concentrated in hotspots. Many of the common volcanoes on Venus are pancake domes, especially near coronae.

Do you want to know what would be your age if you were born on Venus? So just select your birthdate in the above form and click on the calculate button and this tool will calculate and tell you how many revolutions Venus has made on the Sun and its axis since your birthday. That is, how old are you on Venus in years, months and days, along with this this calculator will also give the date of your next birthday on Venus.

Venus orbit around the Sun takes 224.7 Earth days. For easy understanding we have written some years in the table below and it has been converted to how many years on Venus if you are x years old on Earth.