the earth rotates eastward around its axis.
the earth rotates eastward around its axis.
in which direction the earth rotates around its axis?
eastward
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earth's rotation is the rotation of planet earth around its own axis. earth rotates eastward, in prograde motion. as viewed from the north pole star polaris, earth turns anticlockwise.









































the north pole, also known as the geographic north pole or terrestrial north pole, is the point in the northern hemisphere where earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. this point is distinct from earth's north magnetic pole. the south pole is the other point where earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface, in antarctica.
earth's rotation
indian mathematician-astronomer aryabhata, in his "aryabhatiya" first identifies the force gravity to explain why objects do not fall when the earth rotates, propounds a geocentric solar system of gravitation, and an eccentric elliptical model of the planets, where the planets spin on their axes and follow elliptical orbits, the sun and the moon revolve around the earth in epicycles. he also writes that the planets and the moon do not have their own light but reflect the light of the sun, and that the earth rotates on its axis causing day and night and also that the sun rotates around the earth causing years.
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