Short answer Venus spins backward, so the sun rises in the west, and one spin takes longer than 1 year.
Venus, Earth's next-door planet. It's about the same size as Earth, but it spins the exact opposite way.
Most planets spin in place in the same direction. Venus spins backward.
So on Venus, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
So there really is a place where the sun rises in the west
And it spins really slowly. One full spin in place takes 243 days.
243 > 225in days: one spin takes longer than one trip around the sun
It takes 225 days to go around the sun once. So before it finishes one full spin, its year is already over.
From one sunrise to the next takes about 117 days.
On Venus, you could nap for months
Sources
Photo credits
- Venus globe.jpg, NASA/JPL, Public domain (source)
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