Venus rotates clockwise, has a nearly circular orbit, and is the brightest planet due to reflective sulfur clouds. Jupiter is large enough to fit all other planets, while Neptune has the fastest winds. Ceres is a dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter.
Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates clockwise – all the others rotate counterclockwise, with the possible exception of Uranus, which rotates east to west like Venus, but sideways. Also, Venus’s orbit is the closest to circular of any planet in the solar system; the orbits of the other planets are sharply elliptical. Venus is also the brightest planet in the solar system, because the sulfur clouds that cover it reflect sunlight very effectively.
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All the other planets of the solar system could fit inside Jupiter. The storm’s red dot alone is about three times the size of the earth. The storm in the red spot has been going on continuously for at least 400 Earth years.
Neptune has the fastest winds of any planet in the solar system. They regularly reach up to 1,200 mph (2,000 km/h).
A dwarf planet, Ceres, exists between Mars and Jupiter. It is actually an asteroid and was upgraded to dwarf planet status by the same definition change that changed Pluto’s status from planet to dwarf planet in 2006.
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