{"id":15256547,"date":"2026-08-15T21:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/the-planet-that-lied-about-its-own-spin\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:33:38","slug":"the-planet-that-lied-about-its-own-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/the-planet-that-lied-about-its-own-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Planet That Lied About Its Own Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/article_images\/magellan-radar-image-of-surface-of-venus-nasascience-photo-library_20260815_213559.jpg\" alt=\"A radar mapped view of Venus&apos;s surface from NASA&apos;s Magellan mission since thick cloud hides the surface entirely, radar is one of the only ways to see the solid planet the paper argues astronomers have been mismeasuring by watching its clouds instead (Credit : NASA\/JPL-Caltech)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new study warns that astronomers measuring the rotation of distant exoplanets may often be measuring atmospheric winds instead, since the clouds of Venus circle the planet roughly 60 times faster than Venus itself actually spins. Kane proposes using multi-wavelength observations to correct for this, work that will matter enormously once the European Space Agency&#8217;s PLATO mission launches in 2027 and, researchers predict, discovers several hundred Venus like exoplanets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/articles\/the-planet-that-lied-about-its-own-spin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Universe Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study warns that astronomers measuring the rotation of distant exoplanets may often be measuring atmospheric winds instead, since the clouds of Venus circle the planet roughly 60 times faster than Venus itself actually spins. Kane proposes using 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