Kane suggests that without the atmosphere, Venus's rotation would speed up to a rate that would match its orbit around the sun, a phenomenon known as tidal locking.

Venus has a surface air pressure over 90 times that of Earth. If you were lucky enough to spend a day there you would notice that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, the exact opposite ...

However, the hot, deadly atmosphere of Venus spins nearly 60 times faster than its surface, whirling around the planet once every 96 hours, an effect known as super-rotation. You may like Venus ...