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Hello guys, can someone explain me the four seasons ? Why they repeat in same intervals every year ? I think of this:
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That picture is not the reason for the seasons (at least, not the whole story).Hectix said:Hello guys, can someone explain me the four seasons ? Why they repeat in same intervals every year ? I think of this:
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rootone said:As you suggested, the Earth's orbit is not perfectly circular, but it's not as an extreme elipse as your diagram suggests.
While that does make some difference to the overall amount of solar radiation arriving on Earth, that effect is vastly less than the effect produced by the Earth's axial tilt.
The effect of the axial tilt is such that in the northern hemisphere, 'Summer' in the polar regions is 6 months of continuous daylight, and winter is 6 months of darkness.
The same thing happens at the South pole, but the opposite way around, Summer in the northern hemisphere is winter in the south.
Outside of the polar regions there are longer days in summer, but the Sun does set for a while every day.