If we view the earth vertically from the equator, is the earth rotation clockwise or anti-clockwise?

Answer 1

Clockwise?

Idk..I don't understand your question. If you were facing east, thats the way it would go and how the sun would travel over you.

Answer 2

It depends where you are. If you are in a spaceship above the North pole, looking down, the rotation is anti-clockwise. If you are above the South pole looking down, the rotation is clockwise. Now imagine the spaceship is only 5 feet above the earth's surface. That about the how high you are, I guess. If you are in the Northern hemisphere, and look to the South, the Earth looks like it is going anti-clockwise. And vise-versa if you are in the Southern hemisphere.

Answer 3

If you're looking down at the equator, then it would still depend on if north was to your left, right, in front, or behind you.
The standard has been established that the north axial pole of any rotating object is the one where the rotation is counter-clockwise when viewed from above that pole.
If you were to go above the north axial pole and look down, the Earth is turning counter-clockwise (the same as its orbit around the sun if you were above the Sun's north axial pole).

Answer 4

Helicity depends on point of view. Viewed from the North Pole, the Earth and the rest of the solar system (at least before collision, Neptune, or odd capture) is counterclockwise spin and counterclockwise orbit.

Cf: deosil and widdershins (tuathal in Scottish Gaelic)

Answer 5

From left to right whatever you want to call it.