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Let's clear this up! In 1 Venusian year there are 1.92 Venus Solar days – a Solar day is the time taken to rotate relative to Sun (it's the common meaning of "day"). A day on Venus is only longer than its year for a Venus Sidereal day – time taken to rotate relative to the stars:
It's on youtube, 1080p at 60 frames per second:
Also of course Venus and the Sun are not to scale. I was making Venus bigger and bigger so details could be seen, and it got a little crazy.
Also of course Venus and the Sun are not to scale. I was making Venus bigger and bigger so details could be seen, and it got a little crazy.
For Earth there's a much shorter day and longer year, so the sidereal versus solar day is only 4 minutes different https://twitter.com/physicsJ/status/1223929563668893698
