If coordinates use minutes and seconds because of the Earth’s rotation, what do they use for other planets and why?

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If coordinates use minutes and seconds because of the Earth’s rotation, what do they use for other planets and why?

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Coordinates use minutes and seconds because that’s how we chose to divide angles into smaller segments. It is because earth is round, and has nothing to do with earth’s rotation.

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