What causes sunlight to hit earth at different Angels?

Answer 1

The angle at which the Sun's rays hit the Earth varies by time of day, date, and your location. When the Sun is directly overhead, the angle is 90 degrees; when the Sun is just on the horizon, the angle is zero degrees.

Answer 2

It varies depending on the time of day, the time of year and the latitude. At the equator the sun can be directly overhead, so the angle is 90 degrees, at the poles the angle can be very small, like a perpetual dawn or sunset.

Answer 3

The sun is ALWAYS hitting the earth at an angle! But the angle changes over the course of the year. It also depends on WHERE on earth you are considering.

The 900 perpendicular rays of the sun hit at four distinct line on 4 days of the year.

March 21 is the Vernal Equinox. The sun hits 900 at the Equator (00)

June 21 is the Summer Solstice. The sun hits 900 at the Tropic of Cancer (23-1/20N)

September 23 is the Autumnal Equinox. The sun hits 900 at the Equator (00)

December 22 is the Winter Solstice. The sun hits 900 at the Tropic of Capricorn (23-1/20S)

Answer 4

At every instant ... 24/7/365 ... there is always one point on earth where the sun is directly overhead, and
other places where the sun's rays hit the earth at every imaginable angle, from almost zero to 90 degrees.

Every angle you can name exists somewhere at every second. But the points keep moving across the earth's surface.

Answer 5

The Sun is always hitting the Earth at an angle, and the angle varies based on the date and the location. In some places, the Sun's light shines straight down, at an angle of 90 degrees - and along a line about 25,000 miles long (actually, a circle with a 25,000 mile circumference) the Sun is shining with an angle of zero.

Today, September 22, 2009, was the autumnal equinox; at about 2:18 PM, PDT the Sun passed directly over the equator.

Answer 6

7.5 degrees out of perpendicular to Earth's orbital plane.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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