What a Day!

Sunrise over Venus. I did not know that on Venus days are longer than years. Venus spins on its axis so slowly that it takes 243 Earth days for it to spin on its axis, but it takes 225 Earth days for Venus to go all the way around the Sun. So that's its "sidereal" day. But because Venus spins backwards to its rotation around the Sun, it's "solar" day, how long it takes the Sun to return to the…