Venus Traditional Cache
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This cache was placed to compliment our 'Geocaching in Space' Event. You do not need to enter the archery range and you can park within 50' of GZ.
Permission granted by the area manager, Thanks Mike!!!
Congratulations to bahamutvii for FTF!!!
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It has no moon. The planet is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Earth's Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching a magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows. Venus reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, for which reason it has been referred to by ancient cultures as the Morning Star or Evening Star.
It has the densest atmosphere of the four terrestrial planets, consisting of more than 96% carbon dioxide. The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 92 times that of Earth's. With a mean surface temperature of 863 °F, Venus is by far the hottest planet in the Solar System.
Venus orbits the Sun at an average distance of about 0.72 AU, and completes an orbit every 224.65 days. All the planets of the Solar System orbit the Sun in an anti-clockwise direction as viewed from above the Sun's north pole. Most planets also rotate on their axis in an anti-clockwise direction, but Venus rotates clockwise (called 'retrograde rotation') once every 243 Earth days—the slowest rotation period of any planet.
Venus has some unique surface features. Among these are flat-topped volcanic features called 'farra', which look somewhat like pancakes and range in size from 20–50 km across, and 100–1,000 m high; radial, star-like fracture systems called "novae"; features with both radial and concentric fractures resembling spider webs, known as 'arachnoids'; and 'coronae', circular rings of fractures sometimes surrounded by a depression. These features are volcanic in origin.
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