Earth's Rotation

>>8897028

Earth's sidereal day is actually a few minutes less than 24 hours, 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds to be precise.
The Solar day is 24 hours because the Earth takes a few minutes to rotate that extra little bit to have the sun in the same position in the sky.

>>8897046
Huh?

Be precise. The longitude of the Earth directly facing the Sun is always at 12:00pm. The time of the day is not the same everywhere on Earth. On the leftmost Earth in your picture, it's 12:00pm for the people on the brightest side. On the rightmost Earth, it's 12:00pm for those people on the brightest side. On the bottom Earth, it's 12:00pm for the people on the bright side that you can't see.

>>8897028
There's more than one 12pm in an orbit.

>>8897144
I understand, but lets say you're standing outside your house at noon on June 21st and it's a bright sunny day. If the Earth really spins the way science tells us then we should be in complete darkness at noon on December 21st. Right??

>>8897239
Time zones exist anon. You're defining noon backwards. God damn I can't believe I just had to type that.

>>8897133
Look up the difference between a solar and sidereal day.

>>8897028

http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion3/sidereal_synodic.html

>>8897046
This

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>>8897046
Simple and clear answer, good job
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>>8897239
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>>8897046