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FastWalkingShortGuy t1_j3eux8r wrote

It's hurting my brain seeing that thunderstorm lightning trail going a different direction than the star trails, and trying to think about how the space station is moving one direction while the earth rotates another direction.

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Scholesie09 t1_j3ge92n wrote

It's not really to do with the rotation of the earth, the iss is moving across the face of the earth which moves the thunderstorm straight left, but it's also rotating as it orbits to keep the same side facing earth, so relative to the background stars it is rotating, getting the curved trails.

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