Venus' Day Exceeds Its Year: A Temporal Paradox
In Pasadena, California, planetary scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have revisited the peculiar time dynamics of Venus, revealing that its rotation period surpasses its orbital period. Unlike Earth, where a day completes in 24 hours and a year in 365 days, Venus spins so slowly on its axis that one full rotation takes approximately 243 Earth days, while it orbits the Sun in abou...More
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