Venus is the second planet from the sun.
Venus is called the Evening Star and Morning Star because the ancient astronomers thought Venus to be two separate bodies because it looks so bright to us from Earth.

Venus and Earth are almost the same size but it is slightly smaller than Earth. Venus is the closest planet to Earth at 25 million miles.

The temperature rises to 484 degrees Celsius on the side facing the Sun. This makes Venus the hottest place in the solar system after the sun.

The surface of Venus has many craters which were made by meteorites and asteroids crashing into the planet and also mountains, lava plains and volcanoes. Maxwell Montes is the highest point on Venus. It is more than 7 miles high.

Venus spins very slowly as it orbits the Sun, spinning on its axis once every 243 Earth days. On Venus, the sun rises in the West and sets in the East. This planet is unusual because it rotates in a direction opposite that of all of the other planets.

(NASA)