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A Single Day on Venus Lasts Longer Than Its Entire Year
Venus spins on its axis so slowly that one day there is longer than one full trip around the Sun.
Venus orbits the Sun in 225 Earth days. Sounds normal — until you check how long it takes to complete one rotation on its own axis.
The answer: 243 Earth days. One day on Venus is longer than its entire year.
On top of that, Venus spins in the opposite direction to most planets in the Solar System — retrograde. If someone stood on its surface (and survived the 470-degree heat and pressure that crushes like being a kilometer underwater), the Sun would rise in the west.
Scientists suspect an ancient, massive collision with another celestial body may have nearly stopped, or even reversed, its original spin.
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