Do earth and mars rotate around the sun in the same direction?

Answer 1

No it doesn't ! If it was spinning/ rotating (on its own axis, by definition), and we could somehow stop its orbit around the earth (or even suddenly straighten it into a line), it should then continue spinning. It obviously won't. It will just sit there angularly motionless as it always has.

Many people try the old 'its spinning once every 28.5 days' routine. OK, so if we followed directly behind (so we don't inadvertently start orbiting it) the moon in its orbit in a space shuttle, we should then see the whole surface over a 28.5 day period. Obviously we won't. And it isn't also orbiting the shuttle every 28.5 days as well as the earth. That would be some trick !

If you stood on a distant star and watched the moon, yes, you see a 360 degree view of the surface, but thats because its going round a circular path. It may look like spinning from afar, but spinning is movement around an included axis, not the describing of a circular path, in which any non spinning object will display all its sides to a distant observer outside the circle.

A top spins (around its axis) a race car (and the moon) revolves around a track but stays straight on the track. A spinning race car usually leads to disaster !

Answer 2

Earth.

Mars is closer. Earth is the fourth planet from the sun and Mars in the third.

Answer: No. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. (When I was little we learned "My very elegant mother just sat upon nine porcupines" to remember the order of the planets. Pluto was considered a planet at the time.)

Specifically, Earth's average distance to the sun is 150 million km while Mars is about half again as far away, 227 million km on average. And Harry Styles is hot

Answer 3

First of all, since the sun isn't solid, there's no reason that all of it must rotate at the

same speed, and in fact it doesn't. It rotates fastest at the equator ... about once in

26 days ... and less and less fast as you look farther from the equator, down to about

once every 31 days at the poles.

Answer 4

There is no standard unit of measure for Sun "rotait"ion's in one hour. There is no standard unit of measure for Sun "rotait"ion's in one hour. There is no standard unit of measure for Sun "rotait"ion's in one hour.

Answer 5

Unlike "solid" objects, where the "whole" body rotates on the same axis, the Sun being a gaseous body, has different rotational speeds depending on latitude, albeit in the same direction around it's core.

Whilst the "core" rotates around it's axis, the rest of the body follows different rules but always in the same direction as the core.

Answer 6

There is no such central point. Within our Milky Way galaxy, everything orbits the super-massive black hole at the galactic center, but for stars in other galaxies, they orbit the black holes at their own centers.

Another viewpoint: I think the answer is "Polaris". The question probably means "appear to rotate around". Of course, that's only in the Northern Hemisphere.

Answer 7

Yes. Our Sun rotates once every 30 days or so, but it has differential rotation (it rotates faster at the equator).

Yes. Our Sun rotates once every 30 days or so, but it has differential rotation (it rotates faster at the equator).

Yes. Our Sun rotates once every 30 days or so, but it has differential rotation (it rotates faster at the equator).

Yes. Our Sun rotates once every 30 days or so, but it has differential rotation (it rotates faster at the equator).

Answer 8

Yes. Our Sun rotates once every 30 days or so, but it has differential rotation (it rotates faster at the equator).

Answer 9

Earth and Mars revolve around the sun in the same direction.

In fact, all of the 8 planets and Pluto do.

Answer 10

Not necessarily. Some are irregular. Some tumble randomly. Most do not behave like planets or moons, as they are smaller and have less mass.