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The Earth rotates from the west towards the east. As viewed from the North Star or polestar Polaris, the Earth turns counter-clockwise. The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the
point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.No force is needed because there is no resistive force trying to slow the earth down, so in a sense it rotates now because it rotated before: angular momentum. To a good approximation, the planets and sun exert zero rotational (as opposed to linear gravitational) forces on each other. However, there are subtle couplings related to deformations of the planets, which is why for example the moon rotates so that one hemisphere is always visible from earth. By a similar mechanism the earth's rate of rotation could also change.
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