Article History
Received: 17 October 2017
Accepted: 15 May 2018
First Online: 18 June 2018
Change Date: 15 October 2018
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: In the version of this Article originally published, a statement regarding past measurements of the length of day and rotation rate of Venus was potentially misleading. The original statement has now been replaced in the online versions of this Article, to acknowledge that neither Magellan nor Venus Express measured an instantaneous rotation rate.
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.