The âcity of loveâ dwarfs Barcelona in size, being incredibly large from one end to the other, particularly so for a European city. The amount of beautiful monuments to see in Paris is overwhelming â from the Louvre to Versailles, my artistic side was more than satisfied.
But how fast does the Earth rotate? You might be surprised to know that a spot on the surface of the Earth is moving at 1675 km/h or 465 meters/second. Thatâs 1,040 miles/hour. Just think, for every second, youâre moving almost half a kilometer through space, and you donât even feel it.
The Earth moves fastest during the Northern Hemisphere winter. This is because the Earth is closest to the Sun during the Northern Hemisphere winter and according to Kepler's â¦ Law of Areas (and the conservation of angular momentum), planets move the fastest at perihelion and slowest at aphelion.