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What season is it when your part of earth is tilted alway from the sun?

Tilted away, the nights would be longer and the days shorter. Such a time would be the winter season.


What things would not be affected if the earth stopped rotating?

Rotation affects the length of days and nights, weather patterns, and ocean tides. If the Earth stopped rotating, the impact would include drastic changes in temperatures, winds, and ocean currents, but the rotation would not affect gravity, the atmosphere, or the Earth's overall shape.


How does the movement of the earth relate to a 24 hr time period?

Earth rotates (spins) on its axis close to every 24 hours, creating days and nights.


What is 4 days on pluto compared to earth?

4 days on Pluto would be 25.6 Earth days.


Why are nights on venus longer than nights on Earth?

First understand that night is caused when a point on a planet rotates with the planet so that it is not pointing towards the sun (it rotates into the shadow of its planet). On Earth as the planet rotates once on its axis every 24 hours, a point on its surface will be in shadow for 12 hours at a time. Venus on the other hand rotates on its axis only once every 243 Earth days (and rotates in the opposite direction to Earth and all the rest of the planets). However it only takes Venus 224.65 Earth days to orbit the Sun (its rotation period is longer than its year!). Because of Venus's slow backwards rotation combined with the orbital period, the length of a Venusian day is significantly shorter than its rotational period. To an observer on the surface of Venus the time from one sunrise to the next would be 116.75 Earth days, so its night is 58.375 earth days long. Additionally, the Sun would appear to set in the east and rise in the west.