Why does Venus rotate backwards? For starters, it spins in the opposite direction from most other planets, including Earth, so that on Venus the sun rises in the west. ... In other words, itspins in the same direction it always has, just upside down, so that looking at it from other...
this means that its rotational period is -243,025 days. It also means that if you could view the Solar System from the position above its celestial north pole, all of the planets (except for Uranus, which rotates on its side!) would appear to ...
This is also true of the majority of the planets in the Solar System. Venus is one exception, which rotates backwards compared to its orbit around the Sun (a phenomena known as retrograde motion). Uranus is another, which not only rotates westward, but is inclined so much that it appears ...