Planet Venus and Its Relationship to Earth

My research paper will be a collection of information that I have gathered about the planet Venus and its relationship to Earth. I will go over some of the creation background of the solar system because Venus is in it. Talk about some of the characteristics of the planet Venus and its atmosphere. Then later show some of the explorations to Venus.

There are several theories of how our solar system was created. But one widely accepted called the Nebular Hypothesis first introduced by Emanuel Swedenborg then later further work on by Immanuel Kant and Pierre Simon De Laplace in the 1700s. Their hypothesis says that our solar system was formed about 50 billion years ago from a giant spinning cloud called a Nebula. The massive cloud was filled with gases like Hydrogen and helium as well as some dust particles. As the cloud continued to spin with the influence of gravity it began the core began to spin faster and grew denser and hotter. While it was spinning the denser materials began to sink toward the core while the lighter material moved further away form the core flatting out the cloud. With that the core began to gain enough energy to produce nuclear fusion. Thus formed an early version of our sun. With the heavier material close to the sun and the lighter away from it, the similar material began to clump together and form large rocks that would eventually form planets and our Solar System today. With the lighter further away material forming cold gas giants called Jovian planets and the closer heavier materials forming rocky Terrestrial planets. Among those Terrestrial planets came Venus. The planet Venus the only planet named after a female was named after the Roman Goddess for it beauty in the sky. It's common that all the p...

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...e brilliance light of the plant in the sky next to the Sun and Moon and given it the name of the Morning and Evening Star. An Astronomer by the name of Galileo Galilei was one of the first people to observe the phases of Venus. He also made some observations of Venus changes in the size of Venus's visible diameter when it was in different phases. Through time we have began to send out satellites and telescope labs on Earth that continued to gather more and more information about the other planets in our solar system. In 1962 NASA sent the Mariner 2 to Venus as its first close planetarium encounter. The data gathered showed the Climate and revolution on its axis. Later Landers and probes observed the terrain and atmosphere of the planet. As time progresses and technology advances we will continue learn more new and exciting information about our sister planet Venus.