On Venus, A Year Ends Before A Day Does

Añadido: 2026-06-06

[00:00:00]On Venus, New Year's Day arrives before tomorrow does. Meaning a year ends before a day does.

[00:00:08]On Earth, a single day takes 24 hours, and a year takes 365 days. Simple.

[00:00:15]But Venus is completely different.

[00:00:18]The planet rotates so slowly that one full day on Venus takes longer than its entire orbit around the Sun.

[00:00:26]Meaning Venus finishes a whole year before finishing one day.

[00:00:32]A single Venus day lasts about 243 Earth days.

[00:00:37]But its year lasts only 225.

[00:00:41]Which means if you lived on Venus, you would celebrate New Year's Day before tomorrow ever arrived.