The blog explain a fascinating phenomenon on Venus, the second planet from our sun: a day on Venus lasts longer than a year. This seemingly paradoxical situation arises from the unique characteristics of Venus’s rotation and orbit.

  • Venus rotates incredibly slowly. While Earth takes approximately 24 hours to complete one rotation on its axis, Venus takes a staggering 243 Earth days to spin once.
  • Venus’s orbit around the sun is relatively fast, taking only 225 Earth days to complete.

This means that Venus completes an entire orbit around the sun before it manages to finish a single rotation on its axis. Hence, a Venusian day is longer than a Venusian year.

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