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Venus rotates in the opposite direction than most of the other planets. This is called retrograde rotation. If you viewed the solar system from above the sun's north pole, the Earth would rotate counter-clockwise, Venus would rotate clockwise.

Therefore the sun on Venus would appear to rise in the west. One other anomaly is that the speed of rotation is so slow compared to Earth's, that it would take almost 117 days between sunrises.

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To complicate matters, the atmosphere of Venus is so dense that there is no "sunrise"; the clouds are so thick that nobody there (even if some entity with eyes could survive the 600-degree temperatures and sulfuric acid rain) would ever be able to see anything other than a brightening of the overcast.

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