Relative rotations of the planets, in 2D! |
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Each planet's rotation is shown moving to relative scale, e.g. Jupiter rotates around 2.4 times faster than Earth, Venus/Uranus are moving backwards as they appear to rotate counter-clockwise.
@physicsJ on Twitter for more... Imagery from: NASA / Hubble / Cassini / JHUAPL / SwRI / Solar System Scope processing https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/ under CC BY 4.0 NASA ephemeris data: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi#top |