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Venus finishes a year before it finishes one rotation

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[1] NASA Space Place — All About Venus [2] NASA Glenn Research Center — Telling Time by the Stars — Sidereal Time [3] European Space Agency — Venus and Earth: worlds apart [4] Nature Astronomy — Spin state and moment of inertia of Venus [5] NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal — Venus from Mariner 10

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Two spacecraft views of Venus against black space, with pale cream clouds on the left and more strongly defined cloud bands in the contrast-enhanced version on the right.
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Two spacecraft views of Venus against black space, with pale cream clouds on the left and more strongly defined cloud bands in the contrast-enhanced version on the right.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech; image processing by Kevin M. Gill
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NASA Images and Media Usage Guidelines: factual editorial use permitted with credit and no implied endorsement; no third-party restriction identified for PIA23791.
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Original downloaded file unmodified. Website hero uses a responsive display crop; the complete image is available fullscreen.
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