Symbol for Venus

Images of Venus

VENUS DATA

Origin of Name : [Roman] After the ancient Italian Goddess of spring and vegetation. The Romans later identified her with the Greek Goddess, Aphrodite; The Goddess of erotic and sensual love, also beauty. Aphrodite presided over, "rapture, embraces and caresses, wherever she walked, flowers sprang up and sparrows and doves flew about her." - Hesiod
aka : Aphrodite [Greek]
Symbol : (see insert) this symbol also is the symbol for Women
Sex : F, Planet No. : 2, Mean Dis : 108,200,000km, 67,200,000miles, A.U. : .72, Range : .72-.73 A.U., Dia : 12,108km 7,523miles, Comp : nickel-iron, silicates, Color : yellow, creamy-yellow, Mass* : .81, Gravity* : .91, Length of Rotation : 5,831 hours ( 243 days : Venus' days are longer than her year.) Length of Revolution : 224.7 days (@ a speed of 35km per sec) Atmosphere : thick CO2 (97%) H2 SO4 (Sulphuric acid clouds) plus small amounts of neon and argon nitrogen, Temp : 460 C (865 F) Day, Discovery : known since early Sumerian and Babylonian astrologers., Exploration : (see additional blog), Light/Time Dis : 6.01 min
*(that of Earth)

A Poem For Venus

VENUS (The Ultimate Femme-Fatale)

A Planet of Mystery
Earth's Sister
The morning star
Like a woman
An enigma, alluring
Veiled under a yellow cloud
If we lift the veil
A Planet of Women
Is revealed:
A vast plateau to the north
Is called Ishtar Terra
(The Babylonian Goddess of Love,
Fertility and Regeneration)
This is Ishtar's Reign
Another landmass is named
Aphrodite
(Greek Goddess of Sensual Love)
A Caldera is entitled Eve
A Monte; Rhea
After the Wife of Saturn
A Chasma is named Diana
(Goddess of the Hunt and
The Moon)
Venus,
Like any woman
Is unique and independent
Goddesses are a minority among Gods
She also revolves around The Sun
In her own way : retrograde
The Ultimate Femme-Fatale
Of Dawn and Dusk Skies
Her Beautiful and Mysterious atmosphere
Is a death trap
Of sulfuric acid,
carbon dioxide, neon
and argon nitrogen
Droplets of sulfuric acid
Continuously rain
In a thick atmosphere
With an air pressure of 90 times
That of Earth
She crushes the
Probes that
Are sent to her
Broken like Cupid's arrows.

A POEM FOR MERCURY

The Universe is Olympia
The Planets are the Gods
And Mercury is their messenger
The smallest and the swiftest
Of them all
The closest to the Sun
With wings on his helmet
And sandals
Moving around the Sun
In a speedy 88 days
Your distinguishing craters,
Scarps and rupes on your
Coppery surface are named
After famous Artists and
Musicians:
Renoir, Raphael and Beethoven
Honored there for all eternity
On a never changing surface
A dead world for dead artists...
An unseen planet,
Like a mirror image
On the other side of your orbit
Hiding in the shadow of the Sun
Was called Vulcan
By 19th century astronomers
Once lived there in
The imaginations of men.

"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."-Albert Einstein

Images of Mercury in Art

Jean Baptiste Pigalle, (1714-1785) "Mercury lacing his sandals" 1744, Louvre, Paris

Mercury was also the Son of Jupiter in Roman Mythology