Dale Orton,  Omaha, Neb for his question:

Do other planets have poles?

The earth’s poles are related to day and night. Both are caused because the earth spins around like a top. It spins around on its axis, which is an imaginary line straight through the middle. The north pole is at one end and the south pole at the other end of the earths axis. Our sister planets of the Solar System also spin around like tops. Each rotates on its own axis. Each has two poles, one at each end of the axis.

Our Solar System is shaped like a giant saucer. We call the top side of the saucer the north direction. The underneath of the saucer is the south direction. Our north pole points to the north direction and the south pole points to the south direction. The poles of the other planets point in more or less the same directions. The north pole of the planet Mars, for instance, points in almost the same direction as the earth’s north pole.