Gideon's Trumpet (film)
1980
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- Solstices and Equinoxes
- Summer and Winter
- Viewing The Solstices and Equinoxes from Space
- The Terminator
The December solstice (winter for the Northern Hemisphere, summer for the Southern Hemisphere) will take place at 3:27 UTCon December 22 (9:27 p.m. CST December 21). Later, in 2024, the March equinox (start of autumn for the Northern Hemisphere, spring for the Southern Hemisphere) takes place at 3:07 UTC, March 20 (10:07 p.m. CDT on March 19). As a...
In addition, the fact that Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres have their summers and winters at opposite times of year provides a clue to the reason for Earth’s seasons. That reason is Earth’s 23 1/2-degreetilt on its axis. It’s natural, of course, to think our world’s seasons result from our changing distance from the sun. But we’re closer ...
EUMETSAT‘s Meteosat-9 (a weather satellite) captured the four views above of Earth from geosynchronous orbitin 2010 and 2011. A satellite in geosynchronous orbit stays over the same point on Earth all the time. And the images above show how sunlight fell on the Earth on December 21, 2010 (upper left), March 20, 2011 (upper right), June 21, 2011 (lo...
On March 21 and September 23, the terminator is a straight north-south line, and the sun sits directly above the equator. Then, on December 21, the sun resides directly over the Tropic of Capricorn when viewed from the ground, and sunlight spreads over more of the Southern Hemisphere. Next, on June 21, the sun sits above the Tropic of Cancer, sprea...
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It occurs on June 20 or 21 in the Northern Hemisphere... ...and December 21 or 22 in the Southern Hemisphere. Summer lasts until the autumnal equinox. Equinoxes occur when the Sun is directly above the Equator and day and night are of equal length.
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By Hannah Lang and Ker Than. 5 min read. Summer beckons us all year long with the promise of swimming pools, ice cream trucks, and relaxing in the shade. For the Northern Hemisphere, the official...
