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Most of the planets in our solar system spin anticlockwise (counterclockwise) when viewed from above the north pole, but Uranus and Venus are exceptions - they spin clockwise on their axis.
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What is the imaginary line which is spinning such as the planet rotates?
Orbit
What is a planets axis?
A planet's axis is the imaginary line that the planet rotates around, like spinning top.
What planet rotates in a clockwise direction instead of the counter clockwise direction?
Venus
How do we know that planets rotate?
Simply by looking at the planet itself. If it's spinning, then it rotates.
What is a planet that has a rotation in the opposite direction of the earth?
Venus is the planet that rotates in the opposite direction to all the other planets.
What direction does the planet revolve around the sun?
The same direction that the Earth rotates around its axis.
What fourth grade sentence can you make out of rotation?
The moon rotates around our planet Earth. The rotation of the Earth refers to the spinning of our planet on its axis.
What planet rotates in the opposite direction of other planets and moons?
my face dahhh
Which planet rotates backward from east to west?
Venus (and also Uranus) rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets.
What a planet rotates on?
It rotates on its axis.
Which planet orbits around the sun in backward direction from east to west?
No planet does this. You probably mean the planet that ROTATES on its axis in an east to west direction. The answer is Venus. Uranus also does this, but with an extreme axial tilt.
What is the only planet in your solar system that rotates different direction than any other planets?
That would be Venus which rotates retrograde. Actually, Uranus does too.
