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You could think of it as an upside to the planet. It doesn't have a magnetic field like our planet does, which helps determine the north and south magnetic field. Somewhere along Venus's history, the planet got flipped over. There's some speculation that suggests it was early on in its development, it was hit by a large interstellar object that flipped it over on its axis because of a flip. Or it could have been very early on when it was very geologically active and had a magnetic field that it could have just flipped its axis at one point. But it just seems that something's probably been flipped it over. It doesn't have a magnetic field, so therefore you can't say that because it flipped over its north pole it's necessarily pointing down. But its axis of rotation is about three degrees, so it's a little different than our planet here. But it is different for that reason, and Uranus as well. It tilts. It tilts about 90 degrees off its orbital axis compared to the other planets. Just dropping.