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When viewed from above its north pole a body that moves in a clockwise direction is said to have retrograde rotation?
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What is difference between prograde rotation and retrograde rotation?
Prograde rotation turns counter clockwise while retrograde rotation turns clockwise. ( As viewed from above the Earth's North Pole.)
How does Venus rotate?
Venus has "retrograde" rotation. That means it spins clockwise, as viewed from above the Earth's north pole. That's opposite the Earth's rotation direction.
What rotation does a planet have if it spins clockwise?
The general direction of rotation of everything in the solar system is anticlockwise (counterclockwise) when viewed from an imaginary distant point above the Earth's North pole.If a planet spins the other way, clockwise, we call that sort of rotation "retrograde".
What is the definition of prograde rotation?
Retrograde motion is the opposite of prograde motion.So, retrograde motion is where a body is moving in the direction opposite to the movement of something else. Not to be confused with apparent retrograde motion. [See related link]If you were on a child's roundabout and your friend was running alongside in the same direction you were spinning, that would be prograde. If however, your friend turned around and ran the opposite way, that would be retrograde motion. [See related link for a pictorial]In astronomy:The Earth and four other planets rotate in the same direction as the Sun does; Prograde.Venus and Uranus rotate in the opposite direction; retrograde.Do not confuse this with retrograde revolution, as no planet revolves in the opposite direction to the Sun.See related link for a full explanation.
When a planet that appears to spin counterclockwise when viewed from its north pole has what kind of rotation?
Any planet, moon or object that rotates in the opposite to us (Well we have to have a common denominator) is said to be in retrograde rotation (or retrograde motion) But most objects in the solar system appear to spin counterclockwise when viewed from above the north pole, so this is normal rotation, not retrograde.
What direction does Venus spin on its axis?
Venus rotates clockwise, when viewed from above the Earth's North Pole.
Do all planets rotate in a counterclockwise direction as seen from far above the Earth's north pole?
This is known as prograde rotation, all of the planets spin in this direction apart from Venus and Uranus. Venus and Uranus spin clockwise when viewed from above the north pole, this is known as a retrograde spin.
Is the sun in retrograde rotation?
No, The sun rotates in the same direction as the earth and most of the other planets - anticlockwise when viewed from above the north pole.
What is the period of rotation of venus?
The period of Venus' rotation about its axis is 243 Earth days. It is a retrograde rotation, however, in that the rotation, as viewed from the Sun's "north pole", i.e. the direction of Polaris, is clockwise instead of counterclockwise.The period of Venus' orbit around the Sun is 227 days.
A planet that appears to spin counterclockwise when viewed from its north pole has?
It has a retrograde rotation.
Does Venus have a retrograde revolution?
Prograde. In our solar system, prograde is counterclockwise rotation or revolution. Retrograde is clockwise rotation or revolution.Clockwise and counterclockwise are "as viewed from above the Earth's north pole".All solar system planets have a prograde rotation except Venus and Uranus which have retrograde rotation.All the planets have prograde orbital motion (revolution) around the Sun.So, Mercury has prograde motion in both cases.
What is the definition of a retrograde rotation?
Retrograde means - sort of - backwards. To understand forward and backward, however, we need to understand the point of reference...The planets (and asteroids and comets, etc.) revolve around the Sun. We arbitrarily called the revolution of the Earth around the Sun counter clockwise, meaning that the path is reverse that of a clock face, when you look down on the plane of the ecliptic (the path of the Earth around the Sun) from a position that is in the direction of the north pole star, or Polaris.Using that same perspective, i.e. looking down from celestial north, we observe that most of the planets also rotate about their own axes in a counter clockwise direction. That is why the Sun appears to rise in the East and set in the West.Six of the eight planets, Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, have this "normal" counter clockwise rotation. Each planet's axis is also tilted in varying degrees to the ecliptic, but you can still consider them to be rotating counter clockwise.Two of the planets, however, Venus and Uranus, have what we call retrograde rotation. This means that, when viewed from celestial north, they rotate clockwise, instead of counter clockwise. Their revolution (or orbit) around the Sun is still counter clockwise, but their rotation around their own axes is clockwise. That is retrograde rotation.
