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Conceptual illustration of cloud-covered Venus in cream and ochre, lit from the left by the Sun, with a cutaway suggesting the rocky interior and curved atmospheric bands representing the thermal tides involved in its slow retrograde rotation; not a measured map or scale diagram.

Why Does Venus Spin Slowly—and Backward?

 cacophony  10/08/2026

Venus’s slow backward spin can be sustained by competing tides in its rocky body and thick atmosphere. Its exact evolutionary pathway remains uncertain.

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