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First Venus does not have a strong magnetic field of the same type as the Earth. The Earth N-S fields are created by the flow of liquid metal in the Earth's core. Venus has a very weak magnetic tendency produced by lightning in the upper clouds. As weather related effect that magnetism is high subject to change or disappearance. All known magnetic fields have both north and south poles as pairs of opposites. (Monopoles are still SciFi theory.) Properly speaking a compass points to both North and South with the opposite ends of the magnetic needle inside. By tradition, we simply choose only to mark and talk about the North end, ignoring the South end. Effectively the north and south fields flow from one to the other and "cancel" each other out at any good distance. Magnetism is only observed when you are inside that N-S flowing field. However for large objects the "Strength" of one or both poles may be spread around a larger area as multiple weaker minipoles. Thus a planet potentially could have one strong and easily recognized single location North or South pole and then a difficult to pin down opposite pole.

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Does Venus rotate east to west or west to east?

From East to West, it is the only planet in our solar system to do so. All the others rotate West to East. Comments: That's not quite true. Uranus is another one. Here's a bit of pedantry: It depends how you define the North pole of a planet. There are two ways to do that, unfortunately. On one definition, Venus actually rotates from West to East. However, nearly everyone ignores that and says Venus rotates from East to West.


And in what direction would the Sun rise on Venus?

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Does earth moves from east to west?

The Earth spins counterclockwise so no, it spins from west to east. Counter clockwise if you are standing on the north pole. Clockwise if you stand on the south pole. Either way it spins from west to east.


What side of the earth is Europe on?

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If the earth rotates from the west to the east why do the sun and stars move the east towards to west?

Its all relative to your point of reference... The earth rotates from west to east about its axis, or counter-clockwise looking down from a point in space above the north pole. You are standing on the earth, so you are also moving from west to east. You look up at the sun or stars, and they appear to move from east to west. Do this experiment... Stand still and look at some object in front of you. Pretend you are the earth and your head is the north pole. Turn slowly to your left (west to east) and you will notice that the object seems to move to your right (east to west).

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Why does the sunrise in the west and set in the east on Venus?

Because Venus spins west to east unlike Earth which spins east to west.


Why does the sunrise in the west and set in east on Venus?

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What planet rotates east to west?

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In what direction does the earth revolve?

Anticlockwise. The Earth travels from west to east. In fact all planet exept Venus travel west to east.


What direction does the earth revolve?

Anticlockwise. The Earth travels from west to east. In fact all planet exept Venus travel west to east.


The Sun rises in the East or The sun rises in the east?

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What planet does not rotate from weat to east?

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Which planets rotate from east to west?

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Which way does venus turn?

Venus rotates on its axis in the opposite direction to most other planets in our solar system, a phenomenon known as retrograde rotation. This means that Venus rotates from east to west, whereas Earth and most other planets rotate from west to east.


What planet rotates from west to east?

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What is a planet that has a rotation in the opposite direction of the earth?

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