"Venus: Our Sister Planet?" Venus is known as the jewel of the sky. It was thought to be two different planets by ancient astronomers and thus referred to as the morning star and the evening star. Early astronomers also referred to Venus as Earth's sister planet. Both are considered young planets due to the low number of craters and both are similar in size, and their chemical compositions are similar. The surface of Venus has …showed first 75 words of 816 total…

…showed last 75 words of 816 total…to have been the determining factor in how our planets have evolved. So as we look to the early morning or early evening sky and see the brightest star, we can always wonder what might have been. References 1)www.solarviews.com 2)http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/venus.html 3)http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/venus.htm 4)http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/eng/venvolc.htm 5)http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/mveg/guide4.html