If we lived on the equator, then what? It seems far away from us to me. Even farther away is Greenland, which is white on the map for some reason known to geographers. The equator is usually drawn as a red line. There seems to be some Chinese reference with fire being red and south: "located south of China, the equator therefore became associated with redness."
Sunrises and sunsets are very fast there. Not like here. They take minutes there. And then the length of day and night remains constant throughout the year, with a constant climate. The Earth bulges a little at the equator so people are further from the centre of the earth.
Being on the equator means that the noontime sunlight is almost directly overhead every day, year-round. And with it goes a 12-hour day and 12-hour night year-round. That would be solar power year-round for every home.
What is the advantage of the Equator? "Sites near the Equator, such as the Guiana Space in Kourou, French Guiana, are good locations for spaceports as they have the fastest rotational speed of any latitude, 460 m (1,509 ft)/sec. The added velocity reduces the fuel needed to launch spacecraft eastward (in the direction of Earth's rotation) to orbit, while simultaneously avoiding costly maneuvers to flatten inclination during missions such as the Apollo Moon landings." That location is known as the European Space Centre.
Here's our world with that equator red line.
I keep finding interesting images in the past archives of my photo database. With more techniques, the colours and textures can be exaggerated and enhanced. Here's a great example.
