Neptunes Triton. Triton's icy surface reflects so much of what little sunlight reaches it that the moon is one of the coldest objects in the solar system, about -240 C (-400 F). It's the only large moon in the solar system that circles its planet in a direction opposite to the planet's rotation (a retrograde orbit), which suggests that it may once have been an independent object that Neptune captured. The disruptive effect this would have had on other satellites could help to explain why Nereid has the most eccentric orbit of any known moon - it's almost seven times as far from Neptune at one end of its orbit as at the other end
The rotational direction of Venus and Uranus is opposite to the direction of the rest of the planets.
Venus is the planet that rotates in the opposite direction to all the other planets.
Oddly, Venus rotates from east to west, the opposite direction from most other planets and moons. This type of rotation is called retrograde rotation, from the Latin words for "moving backward".
Most moons orbit their planet the same way the planet rotates. One of Neptune's moons is very different. That moon goes in the opposite direction of Neptune's rotation.
Shape, rotation-direction, and orbit-direction.
The rotational direction of Venus and Uranus is opposite to the direction of the rest of the planets.
Venus is the planet that rotates in the opposite direction to all the other planets.
It rotates in the opposite direction the other planets rotate.
retrograde rotation
retrograde rotation
This is called retrograde rotation. Within our solar system, the planets of Venus and Uranus have retrograde rotation.
This is called retrograde rotation. Within our solar system, the planets of Venus and Uranus have retrograde rotation.
It has retrograde rotation which means it rotates in the opposite direction of all the other planets.
This is called retrograde rotation. Within our solar system, the planets of Venus and Uranus have retrograde rotation.
It's backwards. Venus rotates the opposite direction from most other moons and planets.
It's backwards. Venus rotates the opposite direction from most other moons and planets.
Venus, unlike other heavenly bodies within our solar system, has a retrograde rotation. That is, it rotates in the opposite direction.