Radio observations of Venus and Jupiter have already supplied unexpected experimental data on the physical conditions of these planets.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

* 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.

In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

This means that the building's alignment towards the place on the horizon where Venus first appears in the evening sky ( when it coincides with the rainy season ) may be meaningful.

Eta Bootis, or Muphrid, is only 3. 3 light years distant from Arcturus, and would have a visual magnitude-2½, whereas an observer on the former system would find Arcturus as bright as Venus as seen from Earth.

File: Venus ( Bartolomeo Ammannati, Prado E-171 ) 01. jpg | Venus, a variation on the classical type known as Venus Pudica.

* Cleopatra ( crater ), an impact crater on Venus

Toba explained that it was not possible for the staff of Cowboy Bebop to have a dramatic rooftop scene occur on Venus, so " we ended up normally falling back to Mars ".

Through the use of manned and unmanned spacecraft, volcanism has been discovered on Venus, Mars, the Moon and Io, a satellite of Jupiter.

The average caldera diameter on Venus is 68 km.

Because there are no plate tectonics on Venus, heat is only lost by conduction through the lithosphere.

* 1970 – Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully land on Venus.

In effect, the world of all things divides, on this view, into those ( like Socrates, the planet Venus, and New York City ) that have existence in the narrow sense, and those ( like Sherlock Holmes, the goddess Venus, and Minas Tirith ) that do not.

In the Solar System, Mars, Venus, and the moon Titan also exhibit greenhouse effects ; that on Venus is particularly large, due to its atmosphere, which consists mainly of dense carbon dioxide Titan has an anti-greenhouse effect, in that its atmosphere absorbs solar radiation but is relatively transparent to infrared radiation.

A runaway greenhouse effect involving carbon dioxide and water vapor is thought to have occurred on Venus.

Galileo arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, via gravitational assist flybys of Venus and Earth, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter.

Venus was flown by at 05: 58: 48 UT on February 10, 1990 at a range of 16, 106 km.

The design of the instrument was based on that of an instrument flown on the Pioneer Venus spacecraft.

In the world of those stories, Kilgore Trout has written a novel called Venus on the Half-Shell.

In 1975 real-world author Philip José Farmer wrote a science-fiction novel called Venus on the Half-Shell, which he published under the name Kilgore Trout.

* The beginning of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell is set in 3069.

Trout is also the titular author of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, pseudonymously written by Philip José Farmer.

At least one actual published work is attributed to a Kilgore Trout: the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, written by Philip José Farmer but published under the name " Kilgore Trout.

* Venus on the Half-Shell ( novel first mentioned in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater )

Venus on the Half-Shell is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer, writing pseudonymously as " Kilgore Trout ," a fictional recurring character in many of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut.

According to Farmer's introduction in Venus on the Half-Shell and Others, Vonnegut was initially reluctant to allow the project, but finally relented.

On the weekends, classical was complemented by the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and other syndicated classical shows, as well as local specialty shows Jazz on the Half-Shell and Folk Roots and Branches with Paul Jimerson, and a program devoted to classical piano, Klavier, produced by Jimerson and hosted by his wife, pianist and teacher Melinda Isaacson.