Question

Venus is a peculiar planet in our solar system because:

• A. A day is longer than a year
• B. It is made of ice
• C. The direction of its rotation is clockwise
• D. It is the same size as that of earth

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (C)

The correct options are
A A day is longer than a year
C The direction of its rotation is clockwise

Venus is peculiar because its rotation is clockwise (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus). Moreover, its rotation is very slow. It takes about 243 Earth days to spin around just once while it takes 225 earth days to go all the way around the sun.