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Venus takes longer to rotate once than to orbit the Sun.
Venus rotates once in about 243 Earth days, while one Venusian orbit takes about 225 Earth days. A sunrise-to-sunset cycle on Venus lasts about 117 Earth days.
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Nature#025
The Great Barrier Reef faces several documented environmental pressures.
AIMS lists marine heatwaves associated with climate change, cyclones, and crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks among pressures on the Reef.
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Nature#024
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral system on the planet.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science describes it as the largest coral system on the planet, with almost 3,000 individual reefs covering 344,400 square kilometers.
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Nature#018
Lightning heat can vaporize water inside a tree.
The National Weather Service says lightning heat can vaporize water in its path through a tree, possibly making the tree explode or blowing off bark.
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Nature#016
An ocean sound channel can carry signals thousands of miles.
NOAA says channeling in the ocean can let sound travel thousands of miles without losing considerable energy.
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Nature#013
All of Earth’s continents could fit in the Pacific basin.
NOAA states that all of the world’s continents could fit into the Pacific basin.
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Nature#012
The Pacific contains more than half of Earth’s free water.
NOAA says the Pacific Ocean contains more than half of the free water on Earth.
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Nature#011
The Pacific is the largest ocean basin.
NOAA says the Pacific covers approximately 155 million square kilometers (59 million square miles) and is by far the largest of the world’s ocean basins.
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