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Mercury has the longest "solar "or apparent day. Mercury takes 88 Earth days to go around the Sun, so its year is 88 Earth days. It spins very slowly on its axis though, once every 58.6 Earth days days relative to background stars. A solar (apparent) day on Mercury takes 176 Earth days, because of this slow spin relative to the time taken to orbit.

The spin of Venus relative to the background stars is slower, taking 243 Earth days to spin once on its axis. But since its spin is retrograde (clockwise as viewed from above the north pole) and in the opposite direction of orbit around the sun, the apparent solar day is less, at 116.75 days.

So, Mercury has the longest "Solar day". However Venus has the longest "sidereal day", because that's defined as the rotation period.

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