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How fast would you have to travel to never see the Sun set?
People at Earth’s equator are spun toward the east at about about 1,000 miles per hour. So that’s how fast you’d have to drive to keep a sunset continuously in view if you were driving along an equatorial highway. The speed of sound at sea level is about 800 miles an hour.
How fast would you have to go to chase the Sun?
Here are some fun facts about the distance to the sun: On average, the sun is 93 million miles from the earth. It would take 1,430,769 hours to drive there at 65 miles per hour. It would take 59,615 days to drive there at 65 miles per hour.
How fast would you have to go to go around the earth in 24 hours?
If you estimate that a day is 24 hours long, you divide the circumference by the length of the day. This produces a speed at the equator of about 1,037 mph (1,670 km/h). You won’t be moving quite as fast at other latitudes, however.
How fast does the Sun move east to west?
15° an hour
Because of this, to those standing on the Earth’s surface, the Sun appears to be moving around us in a westerly direction at a rate of 15° an hour (or 15′ a minute). This is true of all celestial objects observed in the sky, with an “apparent motion” that takes them from east to west.
How fast would you need to run to outrun the sunrise?
So to constantly see a sunrise you’d need to travel around the Earth along a line of latitude. The equator (zero degrees) is the longest line of latitude at 40,075 km. Divide by 24 hours, and you get the upper answer of 1670 km/hr.
Is it possible to outrun the sun?
Yes – but only in theory. The Earth is roughly 40,000km in circumference at the equator, and completes one rotation every 24 hours. This means that the Sun effectively zooms across the face of the Earth at the equator at around 1,700km/h. So you’d have to travel at least this fast to stay in daylight.
At what rate does the Sun appear to move across the sky?
The sun does move across the sky at 15° per hour along its path across the sky, but when you project the positions straight down to the horizon, you will see that the bearing change with time can be much faster, depending on the height of the sun, which in turn depends on your lat and the time of year.
Does sun always set in west?
Regardless of whether you are in the northern or southern hemisphere, the sun will always rise in the east and set in the west. The sun, the stars, and the moon rise in the east and always set in the west because the earth spins towards the east.
How fast would you have to travel to see a sunrise?
As you move closer to the equator, traveling along lines of latitude, your speed would need to increase — up to 1670 km/hr at the Equator. The Sun appears to revolve around the Earth once per day. So to constantly see a sunrise you’d need to travel around the Earth along a line of latitude.
How fast does the Sun travel around the equator?
That is latitude dependent. At equator you would have to travel more than 1000 miles per hour. As you move toward either pole the speed decreseas to 0 meters per hour at either pole, but the Sun may not rise above the horizon or it may not set around the solstices..
How far north does the sun rise and set each day?
Since the sun’s diameter equals 1/2 degree, that means the sun has been traveling its own diameter (14 days x 1/2 degree = 7 degrees) northward daily. At 65 degrees north latitude (Fairbanks, Alaska; Siberia; Iceland), the sun also rises and sets close to due east and due west on the day of the equinox.
How fast would you have to drive to see the Sunset?
The speed of sound at sea level is about 800 miles an hour. So, to keep the sunset in view – as seen from the latitude of the equator – you’d have to drive your car fast enough to break the sound barrier. Supersonic aircraft can do this!