Venus Spin - Clockwise/ Counterclockwise?

     

Do you know that venus and uranus are the two planets which have opposite spin(rotation) about their axis than other planets in our solar system....

All the planets including our, have spin in counter clockwise direction but Venus and Uranus have their spin in clockwise direction.
This unique feature about them is known as "Retrograde Rotation".


An explanation put forward by astronomers that Uranus is the only planet whose equator is nearly at a right angle to its orbit, with a tilt of 97.77 degrees—possibly the result of a collision with Earth-sized object long ago. This unique tilt may be the cause of its opposite spin.

As for Venus, our closest neighbour, scientists have suggested that it started off rotating counter-clockwise, then slowed down to be almost static, before starting to spin clockwise like it does now.

This might explain the planet's very slow rotation speed today – it takes Venus 243 Earth days to rotate fully, but only 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun. So if you lived on Venus, your days would be longer than your years (and the Sun would rise in the west).

For now though, no one's 100 percent sure what makes Venus and Uranus the odd ones out in our Solar System's family of planets...