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Compared to Earth, Venus spins very rapidly.

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Compared to Earth, Venus spins very rapidly. This statement is False.

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Compared to Earth, Venus spins very rapidly. This statement is False.

Venus actually has a slow rotation compared to Earth. While Earth completes one rotation in approximately 24 hours, Venus takes about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation on its axis. This means that Venus has a retrograde rotation, spinning in a backward direction from east to west, which is the opposite of Earth's rotation.

One of the reasons for Venus' slow backward rotation could be powerful collisions during the formation process of the solar system, but the exact reason is still unknown.

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