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It gives latitude and longitude numbers, bit how do they work? Latitude makes sense but longitude on earth is in relation to an arbitrary line that goes through
by lordnacho 5y ago
It gives latitude and longitude numbers, bit how do they work? Latitude makes sense but longitude on earth is in relation to an arbitrary line that goes through roughly where I'm sitting.
But I don't have a house on Jupiter, so what's it relative to?
- mikestew 5y agoBest I can tell, it's not as simple as declaring a Jupiter version of Greenwich through which to draw that line. Not all parts of Jupiter rotate at the same rate. Anyway, there are three coordinate systems, and given that I'm not the one to be explaining such things, I'll just leave the PDF link here: https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/mop/files/2015/02/CoOrd_systems7.pdf https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/mop/files/2015/02/CoOrd_syste...