Venus rotates in the opposite direction from that of Mercury, Earth, and Mars.
Venus rotates in the opposite direction from that of Mercury, Earth, and Mars.
All the planets revolve around the Sun in a counterclockwise direction, as seen from above the Earth's north pole.
Planets have to go in different directions all the time because they all follow orbits that are more or less circular.
Because the sun is responsible for everything in the Solar system the planets lie on the suns equatorial line and still spin like they did before the planets formed.All the planets go around the sun the same way and lie on a relatively flat plane because of gravity. This is just a theory.
The only and specific reason is because of our Sun's mass! Our Sun has a mass that is similar to Jupiter ans Saturn combined!
To keep it simple, gravity. When the glop that started this little neighborhood got together, there was a net spin. That net spin pulled on everything around it and make all the little bits go around the same direction. As they accumulated into larger bits (planets, moons, etc.) they just kept going the same direction. Now, your turn. Why is the solar system essentially flat. hint: gravity works here, too. Little pulls and after a few billion years, it all comes together.
The theory I was taught during the last ice age was that the solar system condensed out of a single gas cloud. Each planet was part of that cloud and as the cloud was spinning in that direction all the planetary orbits ended up that way. As to on the same plane it comes down to gravity shaping the gas cloud into a disk and so on.
All of the planets in our solar system orbit the sun in the same direction, but at varying speeds depending on distance from the sun. If looked at from above the earths north pole, they would go counter clockwise.
No. The wind can blow from any direction at any time.
No. The wind can blow from any direction at any time.
YES! and without gravity we would be traveling in the same direction until we hit something to make us go another way.
The theory I was taught during the last ice age was that the solar system condensed out of a single gas cloud. Each planet was part of that cloud and as the cloud was spinning in that direction all the planetary orbits ended up that way. As to on the same plane it comes down to gravity shaping the gas cloud into a disk and so on.