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If Earth spun sideways on axis, we'd have extreme winters and summers
But if we tilted Earth's axis even more, to 90 degrees, the US would get sunlight 24/7, around the clock, for months on end. And it's not just the US; the entire Northern Hemisphere would be like ...
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The fall equinox is on Wednesday. A simple animation shows what equinoxes are and why they ...
The day heralds the start of autumn in the northern hemisphere, which houses about 90% of Earth's population ... are the products of Earth's axial tilt: the degree to which the planet is tilted ...