APOD: 2020 July 1 - Our Rotating Earth

Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Our Rotating Earth." This 42-second video clip rethinks the meaning of diurnal motion, or daily rotation of our home planet. What if we were fixed and could watch the Earth rotate each day? We'd see something similar to this clip shot in Namibia, Africa. Shadows shift as the Earth turns, the shadow of the Earth rises into the sky, the Belt of Venus momentarily appears, and then day turns into night. Each hour is compressed to 1 second in the video. Did you notice the satellites zooming by?