The earth is said to be rotating day and night. Then how do we not experience the spinning of the earth
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Answer:We can't feel Earth rotating because we're all moving with it, at the same constant speed. Image via NASA.gov. Earth spins on its axis once in every 24-hour day. ... The day-night has carried you around in a grand circle under the stars every day of your life, and yet you don't feel Earth spinning.
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The Earth revolves around the Sun in a fixed orbit, a journey that takes exactly 365.26 days to complete (or as we know it, a year), it also rotates around its own axis.
The spinning of the Earth around its own axis causes day and night. It takes 23.93 hours to complete one rotation. The Earth completes one full rotation every 24 hours. This is why the Sun appears to rise in the East and set in the West. This motion creates day and night approximately every 12 hours. The Earth is spherical and at any given time, the half facing the Sun will be shined upon, while the other half will have no light. Places in the former will therefore experience day while places in the latter will experience night. The Earth spins anticlockwise as seen from space with North being up.
The cycle of night and day is continuous, except near the North and South Pole. If the Earth’s axis was perpendicular to its orbital plane, all places on Earth would experience equal amounts of day and night: 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night. However, the Earth’s axis is actually tilted at an angle of 23.4°. This means that during the Northern Hemisphere's summer, the North Pole always faces the Sun, so the sun doesn't set here and for several weeks it is continuous daytime. At the same time, the South Pole faces away from the Sun (Southern Hemisphere winter) and is in continuous night.
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As Earth spins, its surface moves very fast, but so do all the things that are held to its surface by gravity—including you! When you move at the same smooth and steady speed, you don't usually feel movement. Think of what it's like when you're in a moving car.