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What the difference between venus and Jupiter?
Venus is an inferior planet i.e.its orbit is inside the earth's orbit. It does not have a moon It rotates from east to west. Jupiter is a superior planet i.e.its orbit is outside the earth's orbit. It has 63 moons. It rotates from west to east.
What planet has no moon and rotates from east to west?
Venus has no moon and evidences retrograde rotation from east to west (orbits "upside down", rotating the opposite direction to its orbit) - such that a Venusian observer might see the Sun rise in the west, and set in the east.
Is the moon's elongation east or west during the waxing phases?
During waxing of the moon, it is lite from the right side. The moon appears to get large from West to East After it passes the Full Moon and starts to wane, it is lite from the left side.
What is it called when a moon's orbit is backwards?
When a moon's orbit is backwards, it is referred to as a retrograde orbit.
How does the moon travels in the sky eastward or westward Justify your answer?
From the point of view of someone standing on the surface of the Earth, the Moon rises in the east and sets in the west, just like the Sun. So it appears to be moving from east to west. In fact, however, the Earth is rotating from west to east "under" the Moon and Sun.
What direction moon orbit around earth?
the moon travels from west to east in its orbit
What the difference between venus and Jupiter?
Venus is an inferior planet i.e.its orbit is inside the earth's orbit. It does not have a moon It rotates from east to west. Jupiter is a superior planet i.e.its orbit is outside the earth's orbit. It has 63 moons. It rotates from west to east.
What planet has no moon and rotates from east to west?
Venus has no moon and evidences retrograde rotation from east to west (orbits "upside down", rotating the opposite direction to its orbit) - such that a Venusian observer might see the Sun rise in the west, and set in the east.
What direction relative to an observer on the earth's surface does the moon travel in its orbit?
In this case, there is 'true' motion, and there is 'apparent' motion. To an observer on earth, the moon 'appears' to rise in the east and set in the west, just like the sun. But in fact the moon travels from west to east in its orbit around the earth. From a perspective far about the earth and to the north, the moon travels counter-clockwise around the earth. It is the relatively rapid daily spin of the earth from west to east that causes the apparent motion. The moon takes a whole month to orbit earth; in that time 27+ days have gone by on earth.
What direction does the moon rotate on its axis?
The Moon orbits the Earth from west to east. Its apparent motion is from east to west because of the rapid rotation of Earth compared to the monthly orbit of the Moon. Since the Moon orbits from west to east, its once monthly rotation is also from west to east, because it keeps the same face (mostly) toward the Earth throughout the month. In plain English: counter clockwise, as viewed from above the north pole.
How does the Moon orbit about the Earth?
The moon's orbit is interesting. Looking down from the north, the earth rotates anti-clockwise on its axis, and the moon orbits earth in an anti-clockwise direction. This is interesting because when we observe the moon, it appears to rise in the east and set in the west, just like the sun. BUT, the orbital movement of the moon is from west to east. The reason this happens is because the moon's orbit is about one month long, but in the meantime the earth is spinning on its axis once every 24 hours. The moon's orbit is an ellipse and not a perfect circle. This means that it moves a little closer to earth, and then a little farther away, once each orbit. The plane of the moon's orbit is not in the plane of earth's orbit around the sun. If it were, we would have solar eclipses every lunar cycle.
Does the moon move west or east?
The moon roates around the earth from east to west.
Does the moon move east to west or west to east?
It appears to move from the east to west.
What direction does the earths orbit?
East to West
What do we say when the sun goes down over the horizon?
We say that it is 'setting,' but this is apparent motion, and not true motion. The same is true for the rising and setting of the moon and fixed stars. There is another spectacular example of apparent motion that is different from true motion. Because the moon 'rises' in the east and 'sets' in the west, it is easy to think that it is "moving" from east to west. In fact, the moon's orbit around the earth is from west to east. The slow (monthly) orbit of the moon along with the 24-hour rotation of the earth give us the impression of the moon's apparent motion.
Does the mooon move east to west or west to east in the sky?
The moon appears to move from east to west.
Why is it that the sun rises in the east when the earth rotates from west to east?
because we orbit
