— How fast is Earth moving? The sun doesn't sit idly in the center of these ellipses at equal distance from their farthest points. It actually follows its own tiny elliptical orbit around what is called the center of gravity (the barycenter) of the system, the sun and the orbiting ...
Low gravity, such as the orbit in which the International Space Station (ISS) rotates, is a completely different environment than Earth’s. Being the creatures of habit that we are, it takes us some time to accustom to an alien environment. The ISS circling around us is subject to 90% o...
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In the summer, days feel longerbecause the Sun rises earlier in the morning and sets later at night. When the North Pole of the Earth is tilted toward the Sun, we in the northern hemisphere receive more sunlight and it's summer. As the Earth moves in its orbit, the tilt of the North...
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the tilt and wobble of the Earth's orbit relative to the sun, volcanic activity, and changes in the composition of theatmosphere. Using data from Antarcticice cores, we can explore whatclimatecycles have looked like over the past 800,000 years (Figure 1). Over this time period, CO2and te...