Strange Words Venusians Use

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Across
  1. 3. the path that Venus makes as observed from Earth
  2. 5. when two astronomical objects align themselves together
  3. 7. an apparent weak illumination of Venus’ dark side
  4. 9. Venus is placed just to the right of the large cypress tree in this famous painting
  5. 10. a group of rift zones on the surface of Venus – noted possible hotspot vulcanism location
  6. 13. visual phenomenon occurring during a transit of Venus ( and Mercury)
  7. 14. requires 3 things: a conducting liquid, rotation and convection
  8. 15. a mineral commonly found on the surface of Venus – the result of many volcanoes
Down
  1. 1. The space probe that mapped the Venusian surface
  2. 2. all planets ORBIT around the Sun and ROTATE this way – except Venus rotates clockwise
  3. 4. no natural moons but several trojan asteroids have been discovered around the Venus orbit. Giovanni Cassini reported a moon back in the 17th century – he called it ____.
  4. 6. almost a thousand of these impact ____ Venus has
  5. 8. as Venus orbits the sun it displays _____ just as the Moon is observed from Earth to change shape from crescent to gibbous
  6. 11. aka “coronae” resemble spider webs – features of radial and concentric fractures
  7. 12. this effect is caused by an intensely thick CO2 atmosphere causing surface temperatures to rise greatly