On Venus, a year is over before a single day ends.
On Venus, a year is over before a single day ends. Not a typo. Venus takes roughly 243 Earth days to complete one full rotation — but it only needs about 225 Earth days to travel all the way round the Sun. So by the time Venus has seen one sunrise to the next, it has already lapped the Sun entirely. The year finished before the day did. And it gets stranger. Venus spins backwards relative to most planets. Stand on the surface and the Sun would crawl across the sky from west to east. Not that you'd enjoy the view — the surface sits at around 465 degrees Celsius, hotter than Mercury despite being further away. Venus is the solar system's most committed oddity. Follow Deep Field Vault for more of the universe, one fact at a time.