The Planets (24 page)

in mythology, 55–56

orbit of, 55

rotation of, 61–63

surface features, 64–69

temperature of, 60–61

transit of (1761), 88–89

transit of (1769), 88–91

transit of (1882), 65, 99

transit of (2004), 99

Venera
images, 68

Venus shadow, 54

visibility from Earth, 50–54

Venus (Roman goddess), 56

Viking
, 133–35

Virga, 62

Voyager
missions, 164–65, 203, 207–8

Vulcan (Roman god), 42

Water

Earth, 74–75, 84, 96

Jupiter, 155–56

Mars, 127

Wegener, Alfred, 96

Willamette Valley (Oregon) meteorite, 6–7

Year Star (Jupiter), 150–51

Ymir (moon of Saturn), 233
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