My mom and I were just looking for some cool facts and we found one that seems almost impossible. Did you know that a day on Venus is longer than a year. A day lasts 243 Earth days and a year only lasts 224. Basically what this means is that Venus spins really really slowly on its axis, but makes one revolution around the sun very fast. How does it go so fast? it actually doesn't have anything to do with speed, but has more to do with how close it is to the sun. It is the second closest planet and therefore has less of a revolution then say, Earth.
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