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| Jan 26, 2018 at 0:46 | comment | added | Mike Sowsun | I often fly Polar routes between Canada and Asia. Some of these flights take us westbound over Alaska at 900 km/hr, and we often fly faster than the earth rotates at those latitudes. Sometimes I will see the sun set in the west, and then rise in the west, as we fly westbound. | |
| Feb 13, 2016 at 20:34 | history | edited | Timpanus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2016 at 20:26 | comment | added | mins | Earth rotates at 1675 km/hr: ohh, at North pole too? Earth rotates at 15° per hour about the pole axis, and at 360° per year around the Sun.. | |
| Feb 13, 2016 at 18:58 | history | answered | Timpanus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |