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单词 retrograde
释义
retrograde

Space Exploration
  • Describing the orbit or rotation of a planet or satellite if the sense of rotation is opposite to the general sense of rotation of the Solar System. On the celestial sphere, it refers to motion from east to west against the background of stars.


Geology and Earth Sciences
  • Used in a planetary context to denote a body moving in the opposite sense to that of most solar-system bodies, i.e. clockwise rather than anticlockwise. The classic example is the retrograde rotation of Venus. Triton is in retrograde orbit around Neptune. At least four of the outer satellites of Jupiter, and one of Saturn, are also in retrograde orbits.


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