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What Would Happen if Earth Stopped Rotating?
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How Earth's Rotation and Revolution Shape Our Days and Seasons
Earth's rotation on its axis and its revolution around the Sun.
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Image of Earth captured by the Elektro-L Russian weather satellite in 2012.
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