Due to it’s slow rotation it actually completes a full rotation of the sun before it itself fully rotates.
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I love how much of a rebel non-conformist Venus is. Years longer than its days, rotates the opposite direction than all other planets because fuck you, thats why. And don’t you even THINK about getting close and trying to land on her. Just ask the Russians how that went. You can’t handle her pressure, temperature nor toxic atmosphere. What a bad bitch. She doesn’t need nor ask your permission to do jack shit.
Yeah she’s hot and toxic, but I can change her…
I ate Taco Bell last night and let me tell you about hot and toxic.
Years longer than its days
That sounds oddly familiar
That was like living with my ex-wife.
rotates the opposite direction
By this, you mean its rotation around its own axis?
Venus sure as shit wont rotate around anyone else’s axis. Venus dgaf.
😂 joking aside, was referring to its solar orbit 😁
Yeah, most planets have the same rotation direction as orbital direction (counter-clockwise rotation, counter-clockwise orbit) but Venus rotates clockwise.
Then there is
NeptuneUranus that just rolls around…Neptune has learning disabilities and we accept him just the way he is.
Uranus rotates on its side. Instead of rotating with its axis roughly perpendicular to the plane of its orbit (like all the other planets in our Solar System), Uranus rotates on its side (along its orbital path). This tipped rotational axis gives rise to extreme seasons on Uranus.
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Wow that is incredible. Isn’t Venus year equal to 200 or so Earth Days?
Pretty sure it also spins the “wrong way” compared to all the other planets, probably a massive impact at some point stopped it spinning and sent it backwards slowly
That’s a good observation. I think you’re right. It really is insane how much evidence of impacts and other forms of geological trauma is extant on other worlds
Makes you imagine if the galaxies didn’t spin so slow (relative to human timescales), we’d be watching rippling shrapnel as shit collides with one another in real time
Space is so cool, fuck
Cosmic billiards
Could this also have contributed to the massive greenhouse effect it has?
I guess whatever hit it could have been made of largely carbon dioxide? No idea if anyone knows where the CO2 came from
According to Wikipedia, it seems that the current scientific explanation is that the runaway greenhouse effect was caused by the evaporation of oceans (caused by the brightening of the sun). The presence of vapor in the atmosphere led to the runaway greenhouse effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_greenhouse_effect?useskin=monobook#Venus
Are there any ramifications of that?
According to Superman (1978), time would move backwards.
It’s basic science really.
I think (although I could be wrong), that that film was trying to depict that Superman was flying so fast that he went back in time. And the best visual they could come up with was that the earth was spinning “backwards” in order to depict this.
The toilet water swirls the other direction.
My son went back to college in his late 20s to get a degree that might lead to a job, so he was in class with a lot of 18 year olds.
He had a astrophysics class, and got in an argument with a girl who insisted that the Sun went around the Earth. He asked her how the length of a year was measured, and she said that long, long ago, some guys just chose an arbitrary number of days to make a year.
How sure are you that she was not the reincarnation of Aristotle?
Hey OP! I’d rather spend a day with you than on Venus!
This one fact always blows my mind.
One is rotation, but the other is revolution.
Rotation: circular motion of a body about its own axis.
Revolution: motion of an object moving around another object.
Are we talking sidereal day or solar day? Both?
Cite your source ffs
quality TIL post. we didn’t know this either!
