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The second planet from the sun. Venus orbits the sun every 225 days at an average distance of 67 million miles (108 million kilometers). Venus comes closer to Earth than any other planet.Venus rotates slowly on its axis in a clockwise direction, which which astronomers call a "retrograde" rotation because…

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Friday February 3, 2012

Cool Video: Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park, in Northern California, is one of nature’s most spectacular sights. John Muir, the great American environmentalist, explorer and "father of our national parks," wrote of Yosemite: "It is by far the grandest of all the special temples…