Why doesn’t it spin independently of me and I end up in another country or something? And if a spaceship watched earth from afar, at one point would it start spinning with earth and at what point can it observe the rotations of earth without being part of it?
In: Planetary Science
Your helicopter is in the air, which moves almost as fast as the earth. That wind you feel from time to time is actually the air moving at a different speed from the earth. In a true hover, the helicopter would actually move over the earth below it, but not at the speed of the earth’s spin, but along with the air moving.
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