text: To begin the author supports his ideas by giving back ground knowledge on Venus. The author then preoceeds to scientificly explain the orbits that Venus, Mars and Earth under takes."Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Because Venus is sometimes right around the cornerin space termshumans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world." The explanation that the author gives us shows us the simalirty of the planets and the efforts of exploring Venus is important despite its conditons.