Venus from Open Space Tapestry tapestry This wide-field view of the

This wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)

Day: About 243 Earth days

The image features the planet’s trademark Great Red Spot and a more intense colour palette in the clouds swirling in the planet’s turbulent atmosphere than seen in previous years

Megeath (University of Toledo)

known collectively as II Zw 096

Venus from Open Space Tapestry tapestry This wide-field view of theVenus is a dim world of intense heat and volcanic activity. Similar in structure and size to Earth, Venus' thick, toxic atmosphere traps heat in a runaway 'greenhouse effect.' The scorched world has temperatures hot enough to melt lead. Glimpses below the clouds reveal volcanoes and deformed mountains. Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction of most planets. Distance from the sun: About 67 million miles, about 3 4 as far as the Earth is from the