With Venus enjoying its 15 minutes of fame (or more accurately, about six hours and 50 minutes), here are five fun facts about our planetary next-door neighbor.1.

The 5 Strangest Facts About Venus. Venus, the second planet from the sun, is an oddity in many ways. June 4, 2012, 11:21 AM EDT / Source: Space.com. By SPACE.com Staff.

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Venus, for instance, may be a next-door neighbor of the Earth, but no spacecraft has ever made the journey there faster than August 1962's Mariner 2 mission, which took 109 days to arrive.

With Venus enjoying its 15 minutes of fame (or more accurately, about six hours and 50 minutes), here are five fun facts about our planetary next-door neighbor. 1. It's often mistaken for a UFO ...