How Long is a Day on Venus?

Why is a day on Venus longer than a year? Why does Venus rotate backward? In short... living on Venus would really mess with your sense of time...

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[vanesaujcic]

This is incorrect.Venusian sidereal day (rotation) is 243 days, which *is* longer than its year. But Venusian solar day (period between two noons) is 116 days, which means that what we usually call "a day" is not longer than its year.

[Zensho]

Hey, but on the other hand, once it's your birthday, you get a full year of being the birthday kid!

[TeamoJr]

Love your video. Just remember not to rush your speech. Taking strategic pauses allows the viewer to process the info cleaner. I look foreword to future work :)

[HansBomers]

As said below: the period of 243 days is the sidereal day: the period of one rotation in relation to a fixed point in the starry sky. The period between two sunrises (a synodic day or in common parlance "a day") is 116 Earth days. A year on Venus is 224 Earth days, or 1.92 Venusian days (1.92 x 116).

[ZeroMana]

Great video man! Some feedback though: I think the music was a bit too loud, and combined with the fast pace it makes it hard to process what you are saying. The pace is really awesome, the quicker the better, but I think you overdid it a bit and I think it's better about 10% slower. But great job, keep up the good work!

[taylorontheweb]

Love the 20 seconds at the end dedicated to that sick beat

[rex]

Came from Reddit. I like it. Make more!

[sabhaydua]

your content is interesting, but some constructive criticism---do it a bit slower

[SgtSlug]

Keep making these & you'll grow.

[ROFULZ]

your animation and voice over are impeccable.

[RTTM]

I really love the art style, reminds me of Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell videos.
Keep up the good work!

[mr_jingm]

Nice video, very unique style <3 I will be sad if you ever stop making these

[Stikx]

Wow! Keep up this quality and format and you'll be huge.

[anarchistatheist]

That's interesting that it takes 243 earth days, nearly 35 earth weeks, or nearly 21 million seconds for a full day to elapse on venus.

[SeanArca]

Great video and animation. Thanks reddit/your brother.

[strategyinc.]

Nice video, it's not too much different from the others like this, but it's just as high quality. Keep going!

[kendallsmith]

Saw this on Uberhumor, it is really well done, keep it up!

[HwthOrn]

Hey great video, thank your brother for his reddit post. Keep it up and keep relevant.

[SublimeCS]

You have my sub. If you keep up the production value and interesting topics you could go far

[AI-nlip]

Great graphics and short to-the-point content. I hope you make it big :)