A Day on Venus Is Longer Than a Year on Venus
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How long does Venus take to complete one orbit around the Sun?
Here's a mind-bending fact about our solar system: Venus takes 243 Earth days to complete one full rotation on its axis, but only 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun. That means a single day on Venus is actually longer than a full Venusian year!
To make things even stranger, Venus rotates in the opposite direction to most planets, so the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east. If you stood on Venus (assuming you survived the 465°C heat and crushing atmospheric pressure), you'd see a very slow, backward sunrise.
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