So you can see, if it's spinning on its own axis in this direction we'd call it spin up, where as this way it would be what we call spin down.

你们可以看到，如果它绕自己的轴朝这个方向转,我们就说它是自旋朝上，这个方向我们叫它自旋朝下。

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Regardless, the world can go back to spinning on its axis now that we know the U.S. won't be beating out our Japanese counterparts in advanced telecommunications deployment anytime soon.

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Further attempts involved switching on the motors while spinning Galileo on its axis, and also when it reached the point of its maximum acceleration around Jupiter.

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