Is the sun higher in the sky at one time of the year than other?

Question

if you can, explain.

Answer 1

Yes. It's highest at noon (not counting Daylight Savings Time) on the first day of summer than any other time in the year.

This is due to the tilt of the Earth in relationship to the sun. If you take a globe (or just a beach ball), you can see how it works for yourself. In the summer, the Earth where you live is tilted towards the sun. But as the Earth revolves around the sun, the part that's tilted toward the sun in the summer is titled away in the winter.

Use a globe or a ball and walk around a table lamp. Make sure you hold the globe tilted the same way as you walk around and you'll see what I mean.

Answer 2

Higher in the sky is maybe not the correct wording. The distance between our planet and the sun is changing due to the fact that rotations are done with an elliptical shape. If you are looking at the position of the sun in the sky it's changing too dependent on the time periode of the year.

Answer 3

Actually, to be technical, NO. It's approximately 93 million miles up there no matter what time of year it is. But from a practical standpoint, the sun
APPEARS higher at some times of year. This is due to the fact that the Earth's axis isn't perpendicular to the plane of it's orbit, but tipped 23 1/2 degrees. This causes the sun to reach it's highest apparent elevation on about the 21st of June, and its lowest on about the 21st of December------that's if you're in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere the situation is reversed.

Answer 4

It depends on your location on the globe. For instance, During winter in the northern hemishere, the closer you are to the pole the lower the sun is. In some places the sun never even makes it over the horizon. For them in the summer the sun does appear higher up in the sky. It would be the opposite for someone near the southern pole. The earth has a tilt and it wobbles as it spins. That is what creates our changing seasons.

Answer 5

Yes, though it depends on your position. The sun's most direct rays strike at different points on the Earth at different times of the year. At the summer solstice, the sun's most direct rays strike the tropic of cancer, in the northern hemisphere or the tropic of capricorn, in the southern hemisphere.. This occurs in June in the northern hemisphere or at the tropic of capricorn in the southern hemisphere in December. During the solstice, the sun appears to be higher in the sky than at any other point throughout the year. After the solstice, the sun's most direct rays move back toward the equator, eventually crossing the equator at either the vernal or autumnal equinoxes (depending on your hemisphere), and the days get shorter or longer. The sun also appears higher in the sky (in spring) or lower in the sky (in fall), thus, you get more or less daylight. I hope this explanation helps.

Answer 6

The sun isnt higher, the Earth is actually tilted. So at times the sun seems in a different position but only because the Earth is tilted and rotating. Obviously when it is warmer the Earth is tilting toward the sun.

Answer 7

the sun doesn't get higher or lower...the earth changes its orbital plane, rotation and axis tilt throughout the year that causes the seasons to change and the sun to appear higher and lower in the sky...the same with the moon only the moon is the one that changes all of the above.

Answer 8

No sun stays on it's place but earth on it's yearly move some times go near to sun in summer times.

Answer 9

Of course it is. It's higher in the summer because the angle of Earth to the sun is more.

Answer 10

yup summer

Earth goes around the Sun once a year

the axis is tilted

so the side facing the Sun changes slightly even as the Earth spins on its axis once a day

get a globe and a flashlight to make it clearer