is it true that venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise?
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Venus rotates clockwise (as seen from Earth) in retrogate rotation as well as Uranus and Pluto. However, it is the only terrestrial planet that rotates in the opposite direction. The theory is that a large asteroid impacted it and that reversed its motion. As a result, it orbits the Sun faster than it rotates, creating a hostle environment with hot surface temperature, making it the hottest planet in the solar system, (hotter than Mercury, although it is closer to the Sun).
709806
A day on Venus is longer than a year because it spins the other way.\nSaturn has rings, and so does Jupiter and other giants!\nMars sometime seems to be going backward in the sky!\nUranus spins on its side (the same pole always points to the Sun)\nMercuray and Venus have no moon, and Jupiter and Saturn have new ones being discovered all the time.\nPluto is no longer a planet because it's too small and its orbit is too oval.
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Venus is the second planet from the sun, and is similar in size to earth. It is the hottest planet in the solar system (despite Mercury being closer to the sun) because of the greenhouse effect of its thick Carbon Dioxide atmosphere. Venus spins in the opposite direction to the other planets (known as retrograde motion) and spins so slowly that the time taken to spin (a day) is much longer than the time taken to orbit the sun (year). It has a daytime temperature of 475 degrees C (enough to make things glow red), constant volcanic activity, and sulphuric acid rain (which evaporates before it hits the ground due to the high temperature). Venus is completely covered in cloud, and its hellish conditions were only discovered when spacecraft travelled there, as there was no other way of seeing through to the surface.
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The rotation of Venus is believed to have been caused by a huge planetary impact that occurred very very early in the formation of the planet.  A similar event is thought to have happened to Earth and it lead the the formation of the Moon.  As for life previously existing on Mars, I think it is possible.  However it was probably only microscopic bacteria-like organisms.  We will never now until humans do some on-site digging in the Martian crust.
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No, as satellites and probes have been sent around the solar system, even behind the sun. There is no evidence of another planet on the other side of the sun. \n\nIn a hypothetical world where there is a planet on the other side of the sun, the gravity pull from the planet will distort the orbits of the closer planets i.e Mars and Venus. This distortion can be extrapolated by astronomists to determine the size and speed of the planet. However the existing 9 planets have all orbits accounted for.
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Venus is a rocky planet, while Neptune is mostly gas.
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All planets are tilted, just not to that extreme...   It is more than likely that it had a close encounter with a large object in its past.  But what the crap do you mean that it moves sidewards?  Its in a relatively normal orbit, how does it move sideways?  I think a more interesting question is why does Venus spin clockwise?
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We do not have a real explanation...\nDuring the stage of formation of the solar system, the gases and dust accumulated to form one big blog, the sun, and several other blogs that became planets.  This cloud of dust was animated with a small rotation, and each blog rotated with slight differences.  The Sun formed, and the rest of the dust became planets, still with some remaining rotation.  At that time, many small blogs were floating around and hitting each other.  It is likely that, at that stage, Venus (or what would become Venus) was hit by another rock, changed rotation, and still running that way.\nSo, no, Venus is not "special".  It is just another rock that was formed at the time...
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I would like to say thanks to the Coriolis effect, toilets flush clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern.  But it is not true.\nThe twisting effect of the Coriolis force is real and does influence certain large things like the movement of air masses, but the effect is so small that it plays no role in determining the direction in which water rotates as it exits from a draining sink or toilet. The Coriolis effect produces a measurable effect over huge distances and long periods of time, neither of which applies to your bathroom. Toilets and sinks drain in the directions they do because of the way water is directed into them or pulled from them. If water enters in a swirling motion (as it does when a toilet is flushed, for example), the water will exit in that same swirling pattern; as well, most basins have irregular surfaces and are not perfectly level, factors which influence the direction in which water spirals down their drains. The configuration of taps and drains is responsible for the direction of spin given to water draining from sinks and bathtubs to a degree that overwhelms the slight influence of the Coriolis force.
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Technically, the general rotation direction of the Sun and most planets is a leftover from the original solar nebula from which the Solar System formed.  As the planets and Sun coalesced, they retained the rotation direction of the original nebula.\n\nDuring the coalescence phase, asteroid-size chunks collided and stuck together.  As more and more of these chunks collected, the planets grew in size.  However, these chunks not only brought mass to the mix, they also brought momentum.  Since most of the materials were probably all travelling in more or less the same direction, the general rotation direction of the growing planets remained the same.\n\nIn the case of Venus and Uranus, it is suspected that a major collision between the planet and another body literally tipped the planets over due to an off-center orientation of the collision.  Uranus tipped over on its side, probably due to its size relative to the other body.  Venus, being smaller, tipped so far over that its rotation was reversed.
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No, you've got it backwards, it flushes counter-clockwiswe above the equator, and clockwise below. Right on the equator should flush counter-clockwise as well.
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It doesn't. Go south of the equator and you will see it spins clockwise.
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N0-Venus and Mercury are the only planets that don't, perhaps because being close to the sun reduces the ability to hold onto a moon.
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No.  Even if they did have a magnetic core (Venus doesn't by the way), their magnetic field would be "washed out" by the magnetic field of the stars they orbit.\n\nIt is simply easier to look for shadows on the stars to find planets.
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Neither, the axis it rotates on is a north-south axis. However, the earth is spinning west to east!\n\nPS I wish people wouldn't say it rotates left or right - its meaningless and incorrect. If you look at the Earth with the North Pole at the top it appears to rotate to the right, but if you look at the Earth with the South Pole at the top it appears to rotate to the left. Use east and west! It rotates to the east!
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It rotates and revolves, just like the planets. It rotates in the same direction as the earth (counter-clockwise), and completes a rotation about once a month. (Because the sun is gaseous, its equator and poles rotate at different speeds.) Galileo discovered that the sun rotates from watching the movement of sunspots. Meanwhile, the sun revolves around the center of the galaxy, in much the same way that the earth revolves around the sun.
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venus is earth's sister because its size and shape. because of global warming, it has no liqiud water but only water in the air. venus is said to be like earth but it has taken two different routes. i believe that one day earth will become liek venus..