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What is unique about the rotation of the planet Venus?

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Unlike Earth and most of the other planets, Venus rotates in a retrograde, or opposite, direction with relation to its orbital motion around the sun. It rotates so slowly that only two sunrises and sunsets occur each Venusian year. Uranus’s rotation is also retrograde.

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