UNIVERSE
OVERVIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
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Mercury
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Venus
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Earth
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Mars
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -As viewed from a position in space north of the solar system (from some great distance above the Earth’s North Pole), all the major planets revolve counterclockwise around the Sun, and all but Venus and Uranus rotate counterclockwise on their own axes; these two, therefore, have retrograde rotation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Venus’ rotational speed is very slow : it turns once in 243.0185 Earth days, whereas the Earth turns in one. The planet rotates clockwise if viewed from the north pole. The sun rises in the west. We call this retrograde rotation (backwards compared to the Earth and most other planets).