Lomonosov was the first to claim the existence of atmosphere on Venus

Lomonosov was the first person to hypothesize the existence of an atmosphere on Venus based on his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761 in a small observatory near his house in Petersburg. In June 2012 a group of astronomers carried out experimental reconstruction of Lomonosov’s discovery of Venusian atmosphere with antique refractors during […]

A Venus day is longer than a Venus year

June 10, 2013August 26, 2013 Anya Did you know that Venus

Read that again, it’s not a year, but the length of a single day. In fact, a year on Venus is only 224.7 days, so a day on Venus is longer than its year. And things get even stranger. Venus rotates backwards. All of the planets in the Solar System rotate counter-clockwise when you look […]