Venus Venus ( or Sol II ) was the second planet in the Solar system . Astronomical data . Originally , Venus was an inhabitable world , geologically comparable to Earth . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to Venus " , PROSE : " Venusian Lullaby " ) Pollution caused by the Cytherians ruined the planet , causing storms of acid rain . It stayed like this for billions of years , until it was terraform ed by human colonists . The terraformed Venus was covered in lush jungle s , had an oxygen - rich atmosphere and a mauve sky . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to Venus " ) There were also metal sea s on Venus . ( TV : " The Singing Sands " ) Rubies could also be found on Venus . ( COMIC : " Treasure of the Daleks " ) There were the Churchill Mountains , named after Winston Churchill . ( PROSE : " The Dalek Book " ) By the 27th century , Venus had two artificial moon s ; Eros and Thanatos . ( AUDIO : " Venus Mantrap " ) Venus had an apparent magnitude of - 3 . 5 . In 2009 , Venus was about 26 million mile s from Earth . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) The mean temperature on Venus ' s surface was 735 Kelvin and the pressure was 92 times that on Earth ' s surface . One day lasted 116 . 75 Earth days . ( PROSE : " Sunset Over Venus " ) Native fauna . There were at least three species of intelligent natives . One was simply known as the Venusians . ( PROSE : " Venusian Lullaby " ) Another was known as the Thraskin or Cytherians . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to Venus " ) The Wispies also lived on the planet . ( PROSE : " Sunset Over Venus " ) A type of Shanghorn lived on the planet . ( TV : " The Green Death " , PROSE : " The War of Art " , AUDIO : " Voyage to Venus " ) Other species include the Klakluk ( AUDIO : " The Paradise of Death " ) , Shrieking Blarosus and the Venusian Sporebeetle . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to Venus " ) The Museum of the Last Ones had specimens of extinct species from Venus . ( PROSE : " The Last Dodo " ) In its prime , Venus was covered in dense rainforests . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to Venus " ) Venusian spearmint could be harvested from the planet . ( TV : " The Shakespeare Code " ) Flowers were also found on the planet , some of which survived until the colonisation by human s . ( TV : " The Wheel in Space " ) History . Distant past . Although generally believed uninhabited and uninhabitable by the scientists of 20th and early 21st century Earth , in fact several civilisations called the planet home . ( TV : " The Wheel in Space " ) Circa 3 billion BC , the planet had a civilisation . ( PROSE : " Venusian Lullaby " ) The planet was ruined by the Cytherians , after they accidentally used up all their fossil fuels and produced too much carbon dioxide , causing a that caused the collapse of their ecosystem . They were forced to escape the planet or preserve themselves for when the planet was inhabitable again . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to Venus " ) Observing a temporary chronological disturbance based on a sudden instability in Sol in 1639 caused by the Eleven ' s stolen stellar manipulator , the Time Lord s noted Sol II among the first three planets in the solar system to be in immediate danger . ( AUDIO : " The Satanic Mill " ) 20th century . In the 1970s , Professor Logan claimed to have planned and executed a manned mission to Venus , but this was exposed as a fraud . ( COMIC : " Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus " ) Rudolph Steiner devised the Gemini Plan to bring Venus into Earth ' s orbit , allowing the planet ' s mineral resources to be economically available . This plan , which would have led to the destruction of Earth , was thwarted by the Third Doctor and Murray Stevens . ( COMIC : " Gemini Plan " ) 21st century . In 2009 , Wilfred Mott and Donna Noble gazed at Venus from Wilf ' s telescope in Chiswick . Wilf was certain that human ity would get there one day , and that in a hundred years time , they ' d be " striding out amongst the stars , jiggling about with all them alien s " . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) During Zoe Heriot ' s time , human scientists found flowers living on the planet . " Space Station W3 " had some aboard . ( TV : " The Wheel in Space " ) Around the year 2062 , the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard found Aristede , an artist prepared to crash his craft into the planet as an artistic statement . ( PROSE : " Venus " ) By 2075 , there was a human colony on Venus . Captain Anastas Thrax and his space pirate s hijacked supply ships en route there until he was defeated by the First Doctor , John and Gillian . ( COMIC : " The Hijackers of Thrax " ) In the 2090s , Lovell Platform orbited Venus , and the " Genetrix " probed its atmosphere . The Wispies were nearly killed by the " Genetrix " s atmospheric sifter s , and the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald had to save its crew and the Wispies . ( PROSE : " Sunset Over Venus " ) When Mars was only just being colonised , Venus had the large city of New Paris and the largest oil reserves after Earth . The Stone family — Mary , Jeff and Andy — were residents . The Daleks invaded the solar system , targeting Venus as a way to outflank Earth and capture the needed oil ; New Paris was devastated and the inhabitants enslaved , all bar the Stones who had been in the Churchill Mountains . ( COMIC : " Invasion of the Daleks " , " The Oil Well " ) The moist climate meant the Daleks needed lead paint to avoid rusting , as well as metal roads to travel on . ( PROSE : " Red for Danger " ) Guerrilla warfare by the Stones impaired the Dalek occupation ( PROSE : " Red for Danger " , COMIC : " The Oil Well " ) and caused them to depart Venus in their fleet , allowing the Space Army to wipe them out . ( PROSE : " The Secret of the Mountain " ) 23rd century . In the 23rd century , the Eleventh Doctor bought Bobby Moore ' s jersey at a Venusian auction . ( COMIC : " They Think It ' s All Over " ) Also in the 23rd century , Iris Wildthyme and Panda attended a Venusian opera . ( PROSE : " The Opera of Samhain " ) 24th century . Venus was used as a rubbish dump for a time . Humans tried to terraform the planet and the whole atmosphere boiled away into space . ( PROSE : " To the Slaughter " ) 26th century . The Fourth Doctor had a pilot ' s license for the Mars - Venus rocket run . ( TV : " Robot " ; PROSE : " The Janus Conjunction " ) 27th century . Bernice Summerfield visited Eros , the artificial moon of Venus . At the time , Eros had a twin moon , the warlike Thanatos . ( AUDIO : " Venus Mantrap " ) 40th century . In the late 40th century , Venus was among the " Big Four " powers in an alliance against the Dalek invasions . It was led by Voccio when the Big Four decided to found the Space Security Service . ( PROSE : " The Outlaw Planet " ) SSS agent Sara Kingdom spent six months on assignment on Venus in 3999 . ( AUDIO : " The Guardian of the Solar System " ) In the year 4000 , Venus was one of the key targets for the Dalek takeover of the Solar system . ( TV : " Mission to the Unknown " ) Roald of Space Security expressed an interest in watching the Venus - Mars games in the year 4000 . In the same year , Mavic Chen ordered Karlton to take a party to Venus . ( TV : " The Daleks ' Master Plan " ) 82nd century . Josiah W . Dogbolter owned a company called Intra - Venus , Inc . He owned the planet Venus itself , as well as Mars and Jupiter . ( COMIC : " The Moderator " ) Later history . Long after Earth was barren and lifeless , another group of human s came to Venus and colonised it by modifying themselves . They later called themselves Venusians . Empress Vulpina awoke the Cytherians and after a brief conflict , the Venusians and Cytherians were able to live in peace . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to Venus " ) Unknown time periods . A fleet from the planet Hyperion intercepted a Dalek invasion of Venus in Space Year 17 , 000 , as the Fourth Doctor recounted to Davros . ( TV : " Genesis of the Daleks " ) Venus was the final obstacle on a race course set up by the Eternal s for the prize of Enlightenment . ( TV : " Enlightenment " ) Susan and the First Doctor visited the metal seas on Venus . ( TV : " The Singing Sands " ) In his first and second incarnations , the Doctor visited Venus at least five times . ( COMIC : " Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus " ) At some point Venus was used as a rubbish dump . ( PROSE : " To the Slaughter " ) When asked about her holiday experiences , Donna Noble listed Venus among the locations which she had visited . ( COMIC : " The Widow ' s Curse " ) Alternative timeline . In an alternative timeline , the Galactic Dutch Company had created domed colonies on Venus by 1983 . ( AUDIO : " The Waters of Amsterdam " ) Cultural references . Venus was clearly visible from Earth and was considered a star by human astronomer s for a long time . ( PROSE : " Byzantium ! " ) It was also the only planet in the solar system named after a woman . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) In 1970 , a small cult known as the Venus People , led by Arlo , believed that God would return from Venus soon , and bring judgement . ( PROSE : " The Devil Goblins from Neptune " )