{"id":721750,"date":"2022-04-20T06:25:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T10:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721750"},"modified":"2022-04-20T06:25:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T10:25:47","slug":"why-venus-rotates-slowly-despite-suns-powerful-grip-planets-atmosphere-explains-the-gravity-of-the-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721750","title":{"rendered":"Why Venus rotates, slowly, despite sun&#039;s powerful grip: Planet&#039;s atmosphere explains the gravity of the situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If not for the soupy, fast-moving atmosphere on Venus, Earth&#8217;s sister planet would likely not rotate. Instead, Venus would be locked in place, always facing the sun the way the same side of the moon always faces Earth.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-04-venus-rotates-slowly-sun-powerful.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why Venus rotates, slowly, despite sun&#8217;s powerful grip: Planet&#8217;s atmosphere explains the gravity of the situation<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If not for the soupy, fast-moving atmosphere on Venus, Earth&#8217;s sister planet would likely not rotate. Instead, Venus would be locked in place, always facing the sun the way the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}