Question
Download Solution PDFWhich among the following planets rotates in a direction opposite to that of the others?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Venus.
Key Points
- Venus
- Our neighboring planet Venus is an oddball in many ways.
- For starters, it spins in the opposite direction from most other planets, including Earth, so that on Venus the sun rises in the west.
- Venus is a planet that rotates clockwise.
- Venus is one of the two planets that rotate from east to west.
- Only Venus and Uranus have this backward rotation.
- Venus is the second planet from the Sun and our closest planetary neighbor.
- Venus does not have any natural satellites.
- Venus is believed to have been hit by a fast-approaching asteroid, which caused the change of the paths and the rotation direction that planet Venus takes.
- It completes one rotation in 243 Earth days - the longest of any planet in our solar system.
Additional Information
Planets order in Solar System:
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M → Mercury, V → Venus, E → Earth, M → Mars, J → Jupiter, S → Saturn, U → Uranus, N → Neptune
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