{"id":138665,"date":"2022-04-25T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/why-venus-rotates-slowly-despite-suns-powerful-gravitational-pull"},"modified":"2022-04-25T20:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T01:02:20","slug":"why-venus-rotates-slowly-despite-suns-powerful-gravitational-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/why-venus-rotates-slowly-despite-suns-powerful-gravitational-pull","title":{"rendered":"Why Venus Rotates, Slowly, Despite Sun\u2019s Powerful Gravitational Pull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-venus-rotates-slowly-despite-suns-powerful-gravitational-pull3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gaining clarity about the factors that contributed to a runaway greenhouse state on Venus, Earth\u2019s closest planetary neighbor, can also help improve models of what could one day happen to Earth\u2019s climate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, my motivation in studying Venus is to better understand the Earth,\u201d Kane said.<\/p>\n<p>Reference: \u201cAtmospheric dynamics of a near tidally locked Earth-sized planet\u201d by Stephen R. Kane, 22 April 2022, <em>Nature Astronomy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaining clarity about the factors that contributed to a runaway greenhouse state on Venus, Earth\u2019s closest planetary neighbor, can also help improve models of what could one day happen to Earth\u2019s climate. \u201cUltimately, my motivation in studying Venus is to better understand the Earth,\u201d Kane said. Reference: \u201cAtmospheric dynamics of a near tidally locked Earth-sized [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}