What type of planet is Venus?

Answer 1

Venus is the closest planet to Earth, but it does not have oceans or human life like Earth. Depending on their relative positions in their orbits, Mercury, Earth, and Mars each swap that title between them. For example, when on opposite sides of their orbits, Venus and Earth can be more than 150 million miles apart, while Mars and Mercury can be as close as 74 and 31 million miles from Venus, respectively. It's a result of the circular nature of their orbits. The closest planet to Venus either earth or mercury depending where the planets are in their orbits.

Answer 2

Venus is definitely considered a rocky planet. Even though it has a thick atmosphere, the rocky part of the planet is a bigger part of Venus as a whole! Venus also falls into the descriptive category of being inner planet (it's located 2nd from the Sun).

Answer 3

The closest planet to Earth varies, depending on where each planet is in its orbit around the Sun, but Venus is generally closer (on average) than Mars is. Sometimes, when both Mars and Venus are on the far side of the Sun, Mercury will be the "closest" planet.

Here in June, 2012, Venus is closest, being almost directly between the Earth and the Sun. (It was PRECISELY between on June 5, for the "transit of Venus". )

Answer 4

That would probably be Venus, though there is room for debate there.

Answer:

Mars and Venus are our closest neighbouring planets. At its closest, Venus is 41,840,000 km away. The minimum distance to Mars is 56,000,000 km. Venus is more than 10 million kilometers closer than Mars.

Answer 5

In order of distance when at nearest approach to Venus,

the planets are . . .

-- Mercury

-- Earth

-- Mars

-- Jupiter

-- Saturn

-- Uranus

-- Neptune

-- the former planet Pluto

Answer 6

Venus is a terrestrial planet, similar in size and composition to Earth. It has a thick atmosphere primarily made up of carbon dioxide, with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead.

Answer 7

The planet that's able to come closest to Earth is Venus.

The next one after Venus is Mars.

Answer 8

The closest orbits to Mars are Earth and Jupiter.

Answer 9

It's just a planet; it isn't a gas giant or dwarf planet

Answer 10

Jupiter.

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