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You Won't BELIEVE Which Planet Spins Backwards!

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You Won't BELIEVE Which Planet Spins Backwards!

Venus, often called Earth's "sister planet," harbors a unique characteristic: it rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets in our solar system. If you could stand on its scorching surface, you would witness the sun rising in the west and setting in the east, a stark contrast (Review) to our familiar terrestrial experience. This peculiar clockwise