3D planet view · True-scale educational sphere
Explore Venus in COSMOS
A cloud-covered terrestrial planet represented by a plain true-size sphere at its selected-date JPL position. The link below opens the explorer, flying the camera to Venus with its position set by the archived planetary state.
Measured facts
- Mean radius
- 6,052 kmPublished mean radius stored as renderer geometry.
- Mean diameter
- 12,104 km
- Distance from Earth at the recorded epoch
- 86,396,690 km · 4.80 minutes light time
- Closest camera approach
- 1.08 mean radii
What opens when you follow this link
COSMOS opens in the same continuous 3D scene and moves the camera to Venus. Nothing reloads, and the breadcrumb trail stays clickable for the way back outward through the Solar System, the measured stellar catalogue and the Galactic view.
If your browser cannot run WebGL2, this page is still the useful part: it carries the identity, the measured values and the provenance, in text.
Where the full record lives
This page is the share link. The complete data record for Venus — delivered imagery resolution, observation epoch, source licence, processing chain and every disclosed limitation — is on its reference page, which is linked below.
Datasets behind this page
- JPL Horizons planetary state archive (2020–2040)NASA/JPL Horizons · derived-scientific-model · One discrete geometric state vector per object at JD 2461281.5 TDB
Content updated 2026-09-26. Every value on this page is computed from the shipped datasets; where a source publishes no value, the page says so instead of estimating one.