What direction does Mars rotate?

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Rian Leevinson
Jan 8, 2016

It rotates in an Anti-Clockwise direction

Explanation:

To determine the motion of an object in space, we need a frame of reference.

So from the perspective of North pole or as viewed from the North star Polaris,
The Mars and all the other planets ( with the exception of Venus which spins in the clockwise direction ) in our solar system appear to rotate in the anti-clockwise direction about their respective axes.

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