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Because unlike Earth, Venus receives a whole bunch of solar radiation on one hemisphere for months on end. This drives a substantial temperature differential t

by qayxc 5y ago

Because unlike Earth, Venus receives a whole bunch of solar radiation on one hemisphere for months on end. This drives a substantial temperature differential that causes strong winds. Since a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus, it doesn't take much for the atmosphere to rotate faster, either.

Razengan 5y ago
> Since a day is longer than a year Wow, that is such a trippy sentence to sink in :)
- loonster 5y ago
  When it becomes tidally locked, days will be infinitely long. It's far less trippy to think about a tidally locked planet than it is to think about one that is almost tidally locked.