Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
"It must be...
D.) ...Cape Cod!" (longitude: about 70 degrees
west)
Nice navigatin', matey! Greenwich lies about 70 degrees east
of Cape Cod. If the Earth rotates from west to east at 15
degrees per hour, it's high noon on the Cape about four
hours and forty minutes later than in Greenwich.
See if you can navigate your way to the correct answer in
next week's NOVA Challenge.