is earth moving east to west or west to east?

Question

honestly i dont know which direction the earth rotates with respect to sun... but when you see it from the top of the solar system it'l be opposite when seen from bottom.... here again we can't be sure which is the top and which is bottom..... may be the southern hemisphere faces the top of our solar system and vice-versa....aaaaahhhh.... its really confusin... help.... hey who's there... answer my question n then escape to next question... thx buddy....

Answer 1

I'll give you a hint - the sun rises in the east - which means the earth is rotating towards the east.

Answer 2

Don't think top and bottom. North and south will be fine. The earth rotates from west to east. But when you talk about the orbit around the sun, it's a little harder to decide what's east and what's west. To picture it the easiest, imagine looking at the earth from the north. It will be spinning counterclockwise and its motion around the sun is also counterclockwise, (Like it's rolling.) The moon orbits the earth in the same direction. All the planets move that direction.

Answer 3

1. The Earth rotates on its axis from West to East with its axis in the North/South direction (by definition of North and South). So it is rotating "due North" because of the right hand rule.

2. The Earth revolves around the Sun about 23 degrees from "due north". (This is why we have seasons!)

3. The Moon revolves around the Earth about 5 degrees from the direction the Earth revolves around the Sun. The Moon's rotation is about 1.5 degrees from the direction the Earth revolves around the Sun.

4. All the planets revolve in the same general direction, with Pluto's orbit being the most inclined (17 degrees). Their axes of rotation are more diverse, Uranus and Pluto rotate 'on their sides' and Venus's axis points towards the South.

5. Our Galaxy, on the other hand, is completely different. The Sun revolves around the galaxy in a totally different direction. Using that "right hand rule" you need to point your thumb toward the "South Galactic Pole." This is located above the southern hemisphere, at 27 degrees south latitude. So the rotation axis of the Galaxy is tilted by 117 degrees from the rotation axis of the Earth.

You can see this at night, by noting that the Milky Way (the disk of the galaxy) is always across the sky in some funny direction. Never due East-West.

6. Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is also moving in some funny direction (completely unrelated to any of the other directions) as it orbits the other galaxies nearby.

I hope this helps. And please, take out the globe and have each person in your class point his/her thumb in the right direction for each example (1-5) above.

Also, you can take out a protractor and make a drawing of each of the 3 main axes. Remember, from the Earth's axis: 23 degrees and 117 degrees.

Answer 4

U are trying to make it too complicated. Get back on the earth and the earth is rotating west to East,that is why most satellites are launched in that direction ,as that means about 1000 mph from the spin of the earth.

Answer 5

There is no up or down or right or wrong in space. We are use to a map that has built itself threw discovery over a thousand years. Looking down at the Arctic we spin CCW. Looking down at the Antarctic we spin CW.
It would be interesting to see a map published with the Southern Hemisphere on top, but with what we learn it would seem to be too strange.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Neptune the only planet that does not follow this, and is Mercury a non rotating planet?

Answer 6

earth is moving west to east around the it self and the sun.

Rotation is the movement of the earth around an imaginary axis (north and south pole).
The rotation is complete in 24 hours producing night and day in non-polar regions.
The angle of rotation is toward the East.
Thus the sun, moon, and stars rise in the East and set in the West.

Answer 7

If we assume that sun appears to rise in the east and sets in the west, than earth rotates from west to east.

Answer 8

Earth is rotating from west to east. So the sun rises in east.

Answer 9

climate strikes west-to-east because of jet pass, it truly is a intense-altitude wind that strikes west-to-east and many times steers our climate. Its brought about from the temperature distinction between our heat equator and chilly poles. intense tension on the warmth tropics desires to pass in direction of the low tension on the chilly poles, however the Earth's spin deflects those winds to the east so that they make a circle world extensive (in the two hemispheres) shifting west to east at mid-latitudes. The jet will dip to the north and south as individual low and intense tension structures variety, yet continuously consists of our climate east.

Answer 10

the earth spins towards the east and it also orbits the sun in that same direction. so if you look at the sun when it is about to set. we are orbiting it from bottom to top. i hope this helps!!!