Eli5: Because the Earth is spinning, is there technically a point at both polls where you could stand still and the earth would spin you around in circles?

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Eli5: Because the Earth is spinning, is there technically a point at both polls where you could stand still and the earth would spin you around in circles?

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

Sure, that’s what’s happening when you stand at either pole. You wouldn’t feel it because the ground’s rotating under you and you turning with it. (eta: or in the case of the north pole, the ice under you.)

But if you watched the sky above you, and maybe took a long exposure photograph, you would see that all the stars are spinning in what seems like a circle right around you. (of course it’s not them that’s spinning, you are!)