Venus has a day that lasts 5,832 hours, equivalent to 243 Earth days, due to its slow rotation. A year on Venus is shorter than a day, taking only 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun. Venus also rotates in the opposite direction to most planets and has the hottest temperature in the solar system.
Humans would be pretty confused if they were to live on Venus. For example, a day on Venus lasts 5,832 hours. That’s the equivalent of 243 Earth days. This startling statistic is because Venus rotates much slower than Earth — in fact, the slowest of any planet — so it takes much longer for the planet to complete one full rotation. And to complicate matters further, Venus takes only about 225 Earth days to complete one orbit around the Sun, compared to Earth’s 365 days. This means that a year on Venus is actually shorter than a day on Venus.
Take a tour around the solar system:
Mercury completes a revolution around the Sun in just 88 days, but Mars takes about 2 years to make the same journey. Further out in the solar system, one year on Uranus is similar to a human’s lifespan: Uranus takes about 84 Earth years to orbit the Sun.
Venus rotates in the opposite direction to Earth and most other planets. This means that on Venus, the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
The temperature on Venus, the second planet from the Sun, is the hottest in our solar system, at around 865 degrees Fahrenheit (463 degrees C). It’s hot enough to melt a piece of lead.
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