Venus' Backwards Spin
VENUS · where the Sun rises in the west
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Venus rotates the wrong way, so slowly that a single day outlasts its entire year. Stand on Venus and the Sun would crawl up in the west and set in the east, 117 Earth days later. Whether a giant ancient impact flipped the planet or its thick atmosphere braked the spin over eons is still debated. Either way: the slowest sunrise in the solar system.
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