Starship Asterisk*

On January 20, without thinking, I posted a comment about the earth appearing to rotate backwards in this video (from east to west instead of west to east as needed to have the sun rise in the east). Almost immediately afterward it dawned on me that this video could only be shot from a satellite tra...

Beautiful video. But in the opening scenes as the "camera" pulls back from the view of the Himalayas, bringing the southern tip of India and then Australia into view, why is the earth shown rotating in the wrong direction (east to west instead of west to east)? When I got up this morning t...