The Planet Venus My report is on the planet Venus. Venus is the hottest planet and is the second closest to the sun. Venus has the nickname as a jewel of the sky. It is also called the morning star and evening star. The people that study planets in the solar system think that Venus is a lot like Earth. It is hotter than Mercury because it has a thick surface. A day on Venus is like 243 days on Earth and a year is 225 Venus days. Venus spins around the sun from East to West. Venus is 108,200,000 kilometers from the sun. The surface of Venus is young for a planet. It is 300 to 500 million years old. Venus has no oceans. It has a heavy atmosphere of carbon dioxide and no water vapo