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Why can't you see the shadow of an airplane when it flies above you?
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∙ 13y ago
As the plane is taking off or landing you can follow it for several minutes. As the plane gets higher, the shadow is farther away, and so it looks smaller and smaller. However, you can compare the size to that of barns and trucks on the highway; it's not changing size much. There's another problem with shadows made by the sun, which you will observe if you compare the shadow of the top of the flag pole to the shadow of the part near eye-level: the sun is not a dot on the sky, so that sunlight comes from many slightly different directions. This makes the shadow fuzzy. When the airplane is so high that it doesn't look much bigger than the sun (seen from the ground), its shadow will be extremely fuzzy and you can no longer see it.
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