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[Phys-l] Coriolis effect puzzlement



A puzzlement (or a dumb question) ===>

Why is the Coriolis effect observed in pictures taken from airplanes? Is
the airplane camera in a rotating frame?

I refer, for example, to Figure 12 of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect.

The cloud rotation does not seem to be merely “relative to the ground” – the
ground isn’t even visible.