Where am I now.

[KitingHigh]

I imagine this might be the last one here. Who knows?

This one is backwards.

I'm above the earth, looking down at it directly.

Which way is it spinning?

 

[travnole]

Trick question

Flat things don’t spin.

 

[bryanscho]

Clockwise

 

[ReliableOstrich]

LR?

 

[InjunJoe]

Clockwise

Actually, it is counter clockwise.

https://www.google.com/search?q=whi...1.69i57j0l5.7271j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[KitingHigh]

Trick question

Flat things don’t spin.

I beg to differ:

 

[KitingHigh]

Actually, it is counter clockwise.

https://www.google.com/search?q=whi...1.69i57j0l5.7271j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Not correct as to my question.

 

[InjunJoe]

Not correct as to my question.

 

[InjunJoe]

 

[KitingHigh]

Exactly.

Depending on where you are and your orientation it could be spinning either way or not even spinning at all.

If I was on the moon it might look like your picture, or it might look like your picture upside down or sideways, depending on which way I was standing. We always reference the North pole as the top, like your link does, but that's just arbitrarily due to most written science occurring in the Northern Hemisphere. Had the world's astronomers of record been in the Southern Hemisphere it would be the other way around.

On the other hand if I was on one of the many satellites in geosynchronous orbit looking down on the Earth, it wouldn't be spinning at all.

In space there really isn't an up or down. Even if you reference something like the sun, the direction of orbit and rotation would still be dependent upon your position. If you were looking at it from below the South pole (as we define it) the directions would be the opposite of how we normally think of them (defined by our "North") pole. There really is no way to define direction without arbitrarily defining an otherwise meaningless imaginary origin.

 

[KitingHigh]

well done.

 

[F4Gary]

On the other hand if I was on one of the many satellites in geosynchronous orbit looking down on the Earth, it wouldn't be spinning at all.

Well that didn't last long. This would have been my thought. I guess there is no answer.

 

[Dr. Nole]

In space, nobody hears you scream...

 

[bryanscho]

Actually, it is counter clockwise.

https://www.google.com/search?q=whi...1.69i57j0l5.7271j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

That's why I said clockwise. Counter clockwise was too easy of an answer.