Image: Earth rotation tangential speed
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Description: Plot of latitude vs Earth rotation tangential speed in m/s, km/h, mph and Mach number (assuming 300 m/s speed of sound). The dashed (blue) line shows that the tangential speed of Cape Canaveral is around 408 m/s. The dot-dash (green) line denotes typical airliner cruise speeds.
Author: cmglee, John Harvey et al
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