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Terrestrial planet · Inner Solar System
Venus
A runaway CO₂ greenhouse near 465 °C — and the gravity assist station half the outer-system missions used on the way out.
- Mean distance
- 0.723 au
- Orbital period
- 225 days
- Diameter
- 12,104 km
- Mass
- 4.87 ×10²⁴ kg
- Known moons
- 0 (as recorded)
Values: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet — not network-verified in this run.
Listed without a figure position: JPL small-body orbital elements were not importable in this environment, and no position is invented.
Recorded encounters
- 1962 Mariner 2Mariner 2 passes Venus — the first successful planetary flyby
- 1974 Mariner 10Mariner 10 uses Venus to reach Mercury — the first gravity assist to another planet
- 1990 GalileoGalileo takes a gravity assist at Venus
An encounter sequence is the order the records give, not a flight path. Atlas holds no trajectory for these missions and draws none.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).
Schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →
Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).