(KGTV) — A post going around social media claims a day lasts longer than a year on Venus.
It's actually true.
A day is defined as the time it takes a planet to make one full rotation on its axis.
A year is the time it takes a planet to orbit around the sun.
Of course on Earth we know a day is 24 hours and a year is 365 days.
But Venus spins much more slowly than Earth and is closer to the sun.
So it takes 243 Earth-days for Venus to rotate once and just 224 Earth-days for Venus to complete an orbit around the sun.
