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  2. Venus - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, Venus transits above Earth only occur when an inferior conjunction takes place during some days of June or December, the time where the orbits of Venus and Earth cross a straight line with the Sun. [185] This results in Venus transiting above Earth in a sequence of currently 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and 121.5 years, forming ...

  3. Planetary equilibrium temperature - Wikipedia

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    [13] [14] Similarly, Earth has an effective temperature of 255 K (−18 °C; −1 °F), [14] but a surface temperature of about 288 K (15 °C; 59 °F) [15] due to the greenhouse effect in our lower atmosphere. [5] [4] The surface temperatures of such planets are more accurately estimated by modeling thermal radiation transport through the ...

  4. Atmosphere of Venus - Wikipedia

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    The early Earth during the Hadean eon is believed by most scientists to have had a Venus-like atmosphere, with roughly 100 bar of CO 2 and a surface temperature of 230 °C, and possibly even sulfuric acid clouds, until about 4.0 billion years ago, by which time plate tectonics were in full force and together with the early water oceans, removed ...

  5. List of Solar System extremes - Wikipedia

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    Subsolar temperature [61] Ganymede: 156 K Subsolar temperature [61] 80 K Nighttime temperature [62] Callisto: 168 K Subsolar temperature [61] 80 K Predawn nighttime temperature [63] Titan: 2 km (1.2 mi) Mithrim Montes, Xanadu [64] Mimas: Enceladus: 110 K Tiger Stripes [65] Tethys: Dione: Rhea: Iapetus: 20 kilometres (12 mi)Voyager Mountains ...

  6. List of countries by average yearly temperature - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries and sovereign states by temperature. Average yearly temperature is calculated by averaging the minimum and maximum daily temperatures in the country, averaged for the years 1991 – 2020, from World Bank Group , derived from raw gridded climatologies from the Climatic Research Unit .

  7. Observations and explorations of Venus - Wikipedia

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    Because its orbit takes it between the Earth and the Sun, Venus as seen from Earth exhibits visible phases in much the same manner as the Earth's Moon. Galileo Galilei observed the phases of Venus in December 1610, an observation which supported Copernicus's then-contentious heliocentric description of the Solar System.

  8. Atmospheric super-rotation - Wikipedia

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    Venus exhibits the most extreme super-rotation, with its atmosphere circling the planet in four Earth days, much faster than the planet's own rotation of 243 Earth days. The phenomenon of atmospheric super-rotation can influence a planet's climate and atmospheric dynamics.

  9. Global surface temperature - Wikipedia

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    Global surface temperature (GST) is the average temperature of Earth's surface. More precisely, it is the weighted average of the temperatures over the ocean and land. The former is also called sea surface temperature and the latter is called surface air temperature. Temperature data comes mainly from weather stations and satellites.