Venus

Venus is hotter because its dense carbon dioxide atmosphere traps heat in a runaway greenhouse effect, while airless Mercury loses heat to space.

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Venus spins once in about 243 Earth days but orbits the Sun in about 225, so its rotation outlasts its year. Why it spins so slowly and backward is not fully settled.

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