urn:nasa:pds:context:target:planet.venus 1.3 1.13.0.0 Product_Context NAIF ID 299 2020-07-12 1.3 Upgrade for MESSENGER migration by PDS Radio Science Advisor. Format improvements for easier reading. 2018-11-18 1.2 From PDS Rings node. 2018-06-23 1.1 From PDS RINGS node. Added NAIF ID alias. Shortened description 2016-10-01 1.0 Extracted metadata from PDS3 catalog and modified to meet PDS4 requirements. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/venusfact.html Fact sheet maintained by NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. Includes some comparative Earth values. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus Overview and summary list of orbital parameters and physical characteristics. Bougher, Steven W., Donald M. Hunten, and Roger J. Phillips (editors). Venus II: Geology, Geophysics, Atmosphere, and Solar Wind Environment, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1362 pp., 1997. A compendium of knowledge about Venus as of the late 1990s, after the Galileo flyby (1990), end of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter mission (1992), and end of the Magellan mission (1994). Thirty-six chapters under nine major headings cover the solar wind environment, upper atmosphere (100 km and above), lower atmosphere, surface processes, geologic structure, volcanism, tectonism, impact cratering, and geodynamics. Venus III, edited by Bruno Bézard, Christopher T. Russell, Takehiko Satoh, Suzanne E. Smreka and Colin F. Wilson. Springer Nature, 2018. https://link.springer.com/journal/11214/topicalCollection/AC_2be6ce3ade85a8ca6cb138adb26c7055 Ten papers plus an introduction summarizing the state of Venus knowledge at the end of the Venus Express mission. Venus Planet The second planet from the Sun in the Solar System. One of the terrestrial (rocky) planets.