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Where would the sun's rays hit earth during the spring equiox, fall equinox, and summer solstice? Like If I was drawing a pic and the sun was in the middle and there was a line around the sun where you would put a circle tilted on it's axis to represent the earth.

2007-03-13 15:03:30 · 2 answers · asked by Lime Green Queen 2 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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Spring equinox would be on the bottom. Put a small circle there for the Earth, with the north pole pointing a bit to the left.
Summer solstice is at the right.
Fall on top.
Winter at the left.

All the poles should be tilted at the same angle (about 23.5 degrees).

2007-03-13 15:09:49 · answer #1 · answered by morningfoxnorth 6 · 0 0

Spring and Fall equinox?? Oh, you mean vernal and autumnal equinox's. At either equinox, the length of a day and a night is exactly the same, so the Suns rays are shining straight 'down'. During the summer solstice, the North pole of the Earth is 'leaning' towards the sun so there are more hours of light (in the Winter solstice, just the opposite is true)

HTH ☺

Doug

2007-03-13 15:14:24 · answer #2 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0 0

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