Sky Time-lapse Visualizes Earth's Rotation

Earth rotation astro time-lapse compilation

What If The Earth Stopped Rotating? Though we don’t feel it, we’re all moving along with the planet as it rotates; at the equator, this works out to around 1600 km/h. Stop the planet suddenly, and everything sitting on top of it would go flying eastward. Imagine people, houses, trees, boulders, and more being launched sideways at hundreds of miles an hour. In the aftermath, high-speed winds, still rotating nearly as fast as the planet, would scour the surface clean. By the way, meet @the_sidturb

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