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How high in the atmosphere would you theoretically need to be to see the Earth rotating?
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∙ 18y ago
Since motion is relative, you could see it in a hot-air balloon floating just above the Earth's surface. The key would be to make sure you're moving fast enough westerly to keep the Sun at the same point above you all the time.
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∙ 18y ago
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How did Copernicus explain why the birds in flight would not be left behind if the earth is rotating?
His reply was that the earth drags along the atmosphere, including birds as it turns
What if the earth is not rotating on its axis?
Then the world would have no days or nights. We would just be either day or night depending on when the earth stopped rotating on it axis.
How do you think Earth's landforms would be the Earth stopped rotating?
how do you think earth's landforms would be the earth stopped ratating?
What would happen if there is were no atmosphere on the earth?
If there were no atmosphere, life, as we know it, would never have developed on Earth.
How much you weigh at the center of the earth?
Theoretically it would be weightless at the centre point of the earth.
What if the earth stoped rotating?
if the earth stopped rotating altogether we would surely die, the dark side of earth would be unbearable in regard to the cold, and the side being scorched by the continuous heat of the sun would also be unlivable and even if the earths size enabled it to keep it's atmosphere it could very well go the way of venus where one day on this hellish planet is almost as long as it's year, it is actually 243 earth days for one full rotation of venus where the atmosphere is crushing and the surface temperature hotter than 490
How important is the atmosphere to life on earth?
Without the atmosphere, there would be no life on earth.
What would be a good sentence for atmosphere?
In earth there is atmosphere.
What if the earth stopped rotating?
we'd all die because we would feel earth stop rotating . because we can only feel acceleration and stopping
Would the earth burn up if it stopped rotating?
nope :)
What would happen if earth stopped rotating and if its axis were perpendicular to its orbit?
Stoped rotating. A day would take a year. Perpendicular. There would be no seasons.
What would stop the earth from having tides?
If the Earth (more or less) stopped rotating.
