The Venus Reference Guide
A plain, sourced guide to Venus — the planet, the runaway greenhouse, the surface, and the Magellan and Venera missions — with a Venus–Earth table from the NASA fact sheet and credited NASA public-domain radar views.
What’s inside:
- How to use this guide
- Size, orbit and a backward spin
- A runaway greenhouse
- Pressure and the air
- The surface, volcanic plains and few craters
- Magellan, coverage, and the Venera landers
- A sourced Venus–Earth table
- Credits and sources
Pages: 11 (A4) / 11 (US Letter). Formats: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.
Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Most inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; the cover is dark, so print that in colour or skip it to save ink.
Every fact is written in our own words and checked against named NASA sources (NASA / NSSDCA Venus Fact Sheet, NASA / NSSDCA Planetary Fact Sheet — Metric, NASA Science “Venus: Facts”, and the NASA Science Magellan mission page), checked 15 November 2026. The sources are listed on the credits page. Where NASA Science rounds a figure that the fact sheet gives more precisely, both are shown and labelled.
Images are NASA public-domain media from JPL Photojournal / images.nasa.gov, credited on the credits page, and resized with no other changes. Several Magellan frames are radar-derived or computer-generated perspectives, not optical photographs of the ground; the captions say so. This pack is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or the National Space Science Data Center.
Licence: personal use. Print as many copies as you need for yourself and your household. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For club, school or commercial use, please email info@reallybyte.com.
Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind venus.planets.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com
This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.
Price: $5.99 USD.