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Hace 6 días · The Short Answer: Earth's tilted axis causes the seasons. Throughout the year, different parts of Earth receive the Sun's most direct rays. So, when the North Pole tilts toward the Sun, it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere. And when the South Pole tilts toward the Sun, it's winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Hace 6 días · Here is how long it takes each of the planets in our solar system to orbit around the Sun (in Earth days): Mercury: 88 days. Venus: 225 days. Earth: 365 days. Mars: 687 days. Jupiter: 4,333 days. Saturn: 10,759 days. Uranus: 30,687 days. Neptune: 60,190 days
Hace 4 días · Winds on Venus move at up to 60 times the speed of its rotation, whereas Earth's fastest winds are only 10–20% rotation speed. [68] The surface of Venus is effectively isothermal ; it retains a constant temperature not only between the two hemispheres but between the equator and the poles.
Hace 2 días · Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.A gas giant, Jupiter's mass is more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU (778.5 Gm) with an orbital period of 11.86 years.
15 de abr. de 2024 · How long a planet takes to go around the Sun (its period, P) is related to the planet’s mean distance from the Sun (d). That is, the square of the period, P*P, divided by the cube of the mean distance, d*d*d, is equal to a constant.
24 de abr. de 2024 · T HE PERFECT day should have 86,400 seconds: 24 hours for Earth to spin around its axis, 60 minutes in each hour, and 60 seconds in each minute. But the apparent precision of these simple...
Hace 6 días · Hello, Pluto! In July of 2015, a spacecraft named New Horizons arrived at Pluto after a long journey. It took amazing pictures of this dwarf planet and will continue to study other objects in the Kuiper Belt from 2018 to 2022. Find out more about Pluto. Make a comet on a stick!
