Venus
Diameter: 12,000 km
Distance: 100 million km (0.7 AU)
Orbit: 225 days Day: 5,832 hours
Hottest planet. Obscured by clouds made of sulphuric acid. Axis is tilted by 177 degrees, i.e. rotates in opposite direction to other planets. Called Phosphorus and Hesperus by the Greeks, and Lucifer and Vesper by the Romans. Visited by Mariner 2 in 1962.

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