Venus turns so slowly that a single day there lasts longer than its entire year, and it spins backwards, so from its surface the Sun would rise in the west.
The simplest way to make Venus feel strange is not to begin with its heat, its pressure, or its acid clouds. It is to begin with a clock. On Earth, the difference between a day and a year is obvious…
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