VENU i BEG NUV 2 2 1993 i'lhti 6 | FEB APR } 2001 OCT >*JN23 200I A? a NO1 fete* M V-..V Mlf 3 9047 02479239 8 y to****** Digitized by the Internet Archive 2013 in http://archive.org/details/venusOOfrad A New True Book VENU By Dennis B. Fradin *i? CHILDRENS PRESS® CHICAGO CA American Museum of Natural History/PK208—40 Art—John Forsberg—14, 15 The Bettmann Archive-9, 10, 12, 19 (right), 23, 26, 28 (righttop& bottom) California InstituteofTechnologyand Carnegie InstitutionofWashington—24 (right) David Peterson-39 (both) Field Museum of Natural History,Chicago/ A77818C-4 NASA-2,6, 7, 13,30, 33,34 (both),37,43 (left),45 NASA-JET PROPULSION LAB-Cover, 17, 21 James Oberg-28 (left), 43 (right) AP/WideWorld Photos-42 Yerkes Observatory Photograph—1 1,19 (left), 24 (left) COVER: Mariner 1 photograph ofVenus ForMattandKaty Wirman Artist's drawing of Venus LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-Publication Data Fradin,Dennis B. Venus/by Dennis B.Fradin. p. cm—(ANewtruebook) Includes index. Summary: Describesthecharacteristicsofthe secondclosestplanettothesun. ISBN 0-516-01 168-5 1. Venus (Planet)—Juvenileliterature. [1. Venus (Planet) 2. Planets] I. Title. II. Series. QB621.F73 1989 88-39121 523.4'2-dc19 CIP AC Copyright c 1989byChildrens Press®,Inc. All rights reserved. Publishedsimultaneouslyin Canada. Printed in the UnitedStatesof America. 1 234 56 7 89 1 R 9897 9695 94 939291 9089 1 ©F CONTENTS TABLE Venus and Ancient People... 5 Venus Is Part of the Solar System ... 1 Observing Venus from the Earth... 18 Was Venus Earth's Twin?... 22 Rockets Reach Venus... 29 What Happened to Venus?... 36 Words You Should Know... 46 47 Index... ._> * - Ancient people worshiped the Sun and the other heavenly bodies. AND VENUS ANCIENT PEOPLE Stars last for billions of years. So when the ancient people looked up and saw the stars in the sky, they saw same the stars that we see today. The ancients also saw seven heavenly bodies that looked different than the stars. The biggest and brightest object they saw #* Solar eruption photographed by the Skylab was the Sun. The second largest object they saw was the moon. looked It same the size as the Sun, but wasn't as bright. it There also were five starlike objects that didn't act like stars. They didn't 6