The search for life from venus to the outer solar system while the discovery of the normally microbe produced phosphine on our toxic neighbour is astonishing other candidates for life are.
Venus our solar system.
Venus is one of the four terrestrial planets in the solar system meaning that it is a rocky body like earth.
Venus differs from all other bodies in the solar system because it rotates from east to west.
Another odd fact about this planet is that its day is longer than its year.
It is similar to earth in size and mass and is often described as earth s sister or twin.
Venus has crushing air pressure at its surface more than 90 times that of earth similar to the pressure you d encounter a mile below the ocean on earth.
The clouds of venus join the shortlist for potential signs of life in our solar system by mike wall 14 september 2020 scientists have spotted possible signs of life on multiple worlds beyond earth.
Of the objects that orbit the sun directly the largest are the eight planets with the remainder being smaller objects the dwarf planets and small solar system bodies of the objects that orbit the sun indirectly the moons two are larger than the smallest planet.
The diameter of venus is 12 103 6 km 7 520 8 mi only 638 4 km 396 7 mi less than earth s and its mass is 81 5 of earth s.
The solar system is the gravitationally bound system of the sun and the objects that orbit it either directly or indirectly.