Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It has no natural satellite. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows. Because Venus is an inferior planet from Earth, it never appears to venture far from the Sun: its elongation reaches a maximum of 47.8°.

Venus is a terrestrial planet and is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similar size, mass, proximity to the Sun and bulk composition. It is radically different from Earth in other respects. It has the densest atmosphere of the four terrestrial planets, consisting of more than 96% carbon dioxide. The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 92 times that of Earth. With a mean surface temperature of 735 K (462 °C; 863 °F), Venus is by far the hottest planet in the Solar System, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun. Venus is shrouded by an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid, preventing its surface from being seen from space in visible light. It may have had oceans in the past, but these would have vaporised as the temperature rose due to a runaway greenhouse effect. The water has most probably photodissociated, and, because of the lack of a planetary magnetic field, the free hydrogen has been swept into interplanetary space by the solar wind. Venus's surface is a dry desertscape interspersed with slab-like rocks and periodically resurfaced by volcanism.

The Planet Internet Services

The Planet was a privately held dedicated server company based in Texas. In May 2006, the company merged with Everyone's Internet, which used the EV1 Servers brand. In 2010, they merged with SoftLayer. All services provided by both companies were then operated under the SoftLayer name.

History

The Planet's support system was called Orbit and was located at orbit.theplanet.com. Prior to the merger, The Planet operated under several different brands. They included: "Server Matrix", which served the low-price end of the market; "Total Control", which featured servers with complete remote control, such as Dell DRAC and Remote Console capabilities;

Orbit was the main way customers knew they were dealing with The Planet as a company rather than with one of the different brands they operated. The Planet then sold servers almost exclusively through their website rather than different brands which had been unified into their website.

On November 10, 2010, GI Partners announced that the merger of The Planet and SoftLayer was effective. On November 16, 2010, The Planet was rebranded SoftLayer as part of the merger. On June 4, 2013, IBM announced its acquisition of SoftLayer.

Planet (disambiguation)

A planet, in astronomy, is one of a class of celestial bodies that orbit stars. (A dwarf planet is a similar, but officially mutually exclusive, class of body.)

Planet or Planets may also refer to:

As an acronym

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The Planet (album)

The Planet is the first mini-album by American synthpop duo Young Ejecta (Leanne Macomber and Joel Ford). The second overall studio album by the group and the first to be released under Young Ejecta, which had been changed from simply Ejecta due to a conflict with another DJ named Ejeca, the six-track record contains influences of minimalist electronic music, euro disco and 1970s pop music. On October 8, 2014, the band announced they had finished producing the album. Three singles spawned from the record: "Welcome to Love", "Your Planet" and "Into Your Heart".

Critical reception

Reviews of The Planet' were favorable. Andrew Darley of The 405 said that Young Ejecta achieved in proving they had an "ability in producing emotionally intelligent pop music with a knowing sense of enchanting melodies".Exclaim! Scott Simpson scored the album an eight of ten, writing that it "works more than well enough as its own insular world, and is hopefully but a taste of more to come (Driftless)".SLUG Magazine writer Allison Shephard called The Planet "good for those who aren’t ready for the full-on interstellar adventure and experienced explorers alike", while Fast Forward Weekly critic Brock Thiessen described it as "hardly a big, bold addition to the world of electro-pop, but it is a pleasant one, further cementing Young Ejecta as a unique project worth both your time and attention." However, in a more mixed review published in Popmatters, Colin Fitzgerald criticized The Planet for being "too morose and humorless to be really good pop music, and too upbeat and cheap to be taken very seriously."