There would be no seasons, and the length of day & night
would be exactly 12 hours each.
There would be no seasons, and the length of day & night would be exactly 12 hours each.
What if anything would happen to the shape of the earth if it were to rotate on its axis faster than it does todayWell ladies and gentlemen
it means 2012 will happen! you cannot hide! We are doomed!
Mercury's axis tilt is 0°. Venus' axis tilt is 177.4°. Earth's axis tilt is 23.5°. Mars' axis tilt is 25.2°. Jupiter's axis tilt is 3.1°. Saturn's axis tilt is 25.3°. Uranus' axis tilt is 97.8°. Neptune's axis tilt is 28.8°. Pluto's axis tilt is 122.5°.
Earth's axis is the imaginary line which goes through the north and south poles and around which Earth spins. It is inclined 66.5 degrees from Earth's orbital plane, which means that it is tilted 23.5 degrees from a vertical 90 degrees.Generally, an axis is any imaginary or physical line that prescribes an object's movement. A taut string that goes through the center of a spinning ball would be an example of a physical axis. The string, as the axis, would represent the part of the ball that is not really moving or that is moving the least.An axis also includes the point that is known as the center of gravity.The Earth's axis is an imaginary line or shaft that the Earth looks to be turning around, like a meatball on a skewer. It runs more or less through the poles.
Probably nothing; the earthquake in Chile last week probably did that much.
we would not have seasons
There would be no seasons
Earth's axis is tilted to about 11 degrees from the vertical.
The axis of polarity is the imaginary line that runs through the earth from one pole to another. The earth does not have a strictly vertical axis. The earth rotates on a tilt.
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The x axis is the horizontal axis. The y axis is the vertical axis.
The vertical axis is the y-axis. The horizontal axis is the x-axis.
First of all, as long as we're in our comfortable familiar environment, "vertical" means toward or away from the center of the earth. When you start talking about things in space, the word "vertical" has no meaning. You might expect the earth's axis of rotation to be perpendicular to the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. If that's what you expect, then you'll be disappointed. The axis of rotation makes an angle of about 66.5 degrees with the orbital plane.
I think the question should be "what is the angle..." The tilt of Earth's axis is about 23.5°. This is the angle between Earth's axis and a line that is vertical to the Ecliptic (the plane in which Earth orbits the Sun).