VENUS IS A BURNING-DESERT WORLD
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Resources for learning more about this major Solar System body...

Venus is one of nine known major planets of the Solar System. It is the second planet out from the Sun and one of the four rocky metallic planets nearest the Sun. Those four inner planets are referred to as terrestrial planets since they are much like our own planet Earth.

Venus

Hubble Space Telescope image of Venus

• Venus Planet Profile  NASA JPL
• Venus Described  SEDS Nine Planets
• Exploring Venus  STO
• Exploring Venus index  STO
• Planet Venus  STO
• Venus Water  STO
• Venus Greenhouse  STO
• Venus Lightning  STO

Exploring Venus and the Solar System
• Venus Express  STO
• Venus Spacecraft  STO
• The Pioneers  STO
• The Voyagers  STO
• Exploring the Solar System  STO

Venus Transit
• Venus Transit 2004  STO
• Guide to Viewing the Transit  Science @ NASA
• Guide to Viewing the Transit  Science @ NASA
• 2004 Venus Transit Resource Guide  NASA Sun-Earth Connection
• Movies and diagrams of the transit  Astronomy magazine
• Venus Transits of 2004 and 2012  NASA Goddard
• Guide to the Transit of Venus  Sky & Telescope magazine

Captain James Cook
• James Cook and the Transit of Venus  Science @ NASA
• James Cook and the Transit of Venus  Blue Latitudes
• James Cook Journals  National Library of Australia
• History of Cook's Endeavour  HM Bark Endeavour Foundation
• James Cook Transit Timing Measurements  Royal Society of London
• South Seas Voyaging  National Library of Australia
• James Cook Drawings of 1769 Venus Transit  Armagh Observatory
• Capt. Cook's Voyages  Linda Hall Library History of Science

How to watch the Sun safely
• Safe Sunwatching  Science @ NASA
• List of solar filter suppliers  Sky & Telescope magazine
• Solar Filter Safety  Sky & Telescope magazine
• Close-Up of a Star  Sky & Telescope magazine
• A Beginner's Guide to Solar Observing  Sky & Telescope magazine

Read more about the Solar System . . .
Star:	The Sun
Inner Planets:	Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars
Outer Planets:	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto
Other Bodies:	Moons	Asteroids	Comets
Beyond:	Pioneers	Voyagers