Is the Moon Upside Down?: A Quicke Guide to the Cosmos by Greg Quicke

Is the Moon Upside Down?: A Quicke Guide to the Cosmos by Greg Quicke

Author:Greg Quicke [Quicke, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science, Space Science, General, Astronomy, nature, Sky Observation, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
ISBN: 9781760895068
Google: g9PZDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2020-09-29T23:32:37.877989+00:00


Going west

At sunrise, because you’re now upside down compared to where you were at sunset, the Earth is taking you headfirst to go around the Sun.

At midday you’re going west.

The journey is the same. The Earth is hurtling through space to go around the Sun at 107,000 km/h. Our perspective on that direction changes simply because we are turning around once a day on the Earth while it carries us on this bigger journey.

Watching the journey

If we choose to look for this movement every evening – instead of at any other time of the day or night – we can take out the complication that the spinning Earth brings to watching the planet go around the Sun.



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