Solved cryptogram
Venus turns backward compared with the other planets, so there the sun would rise in the west.
Astronomy Facts, sourced to NASA.
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What it means
Almost everything in the solar system spins the same way, inherited from the rotation of the cloud it all condensed out of. Venus does not, and nobody is certain why. A giant impact early on could have flipped it, or tidal forces acting on its thick atmosphere could have slowly turned it over. Its rotation is also extraordinarily slow, taking longer than its trip around the sun.
The claim comes from NASA.
- SourceNASA
- CollectionAstronomy Facts
- Difficultymedium
- Length76 letters, 19 unique
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