Venus in 3D: live position and orbit

The hottest planet. Its thick CO₂ atmosphere traps heat through a runaway greenhouse effect, and it spins backwards, very slowly.

Venus is shown at its real position, computed from NASA/JPL ephemeris data. The view opens on Venus; you can travel in time, switch between the educational overview and the true-scale voyage, and compare it with every other body of the solar system.

Radius

6 052 km¹

Mass

4.87 × 10²⁴ kg¹

Surface gravity

8.87 m/s²¹

Mean temperature

464 °C¹

Mean distance from the Sun

0.723 AU¹

Orbital period

225 days¹

Sidereal rotation

243 days¹

Axial tilt

177.4°¹

Known moons

0 (as of January 2024)¹

Missions

• Venera 2
• Venera 3
• Venera 4
• Mariner 67
• Venera 5
• Venera 6
• Venera 7
• Venera 8
• Mariner 10
• Venera 9
• Venera 10
• Galileo
• Pioneer Venus
• Venera 11
• Venera 13
• Venera 14
• Venera 15
• Venera 16
• Magellan
• HST
• Cassini-Huygens
• MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging
• Venus Express
• Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki Mission
• BepiColombo
• JUICE

Flybys

• April 26, 1998: Cassini
• June 24, 1999: Cassini
• October 3, 2018: Parker Solar Probe
• December 26, 2019: Parker Solar Probe
• July 11, 2020: Parker Solar Probe
• October 15, 2020: BepiColombo
• December 27, 2020: Solar Orbiter
• February 20, 2021: Parker Solar Probe
• August 9, 2021: Solar Orbiter
• August 10, 2021: BepiColombo
• October 16, 2021: Parker Solar Probe
• September 4, 2022: Solar Orbiter
• August 21, 2023: Parker Solar Probe
• November 6, 2024: Parker Solar Probe
• February 18, 2025: Solar Orbiter
• August 31, 2025: Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
• December 24, 2026: Solar Orbiter
• March 18, 2028: Solar Orbiter
• June 10, 2029: Solar Orbiter
• September 3, 2030: Solar Orbiter

Sources

1. NASA NSSDCA, Planetary and Satellite Fact Sheets. read 2026-09-17. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html