Earth's orbit around the Sun

Distances and dimensions are not in scale. Color lines show Equinoxes and Solstice.

January

Sunbeam inclination at selected latitude at high noon

The Earth view

3D 2D

Selected latitude

The circle seperating the illuminated hemisphere

Equator

Tropics

Polar circles

Show the sunbeams direction (3D)

Seasons

What induces the seasons? How high is the sun over the year in different latitudes? And how would the situation change when the Earth's axis had a different slope?

Rotation of the Earth The Earth's orbiting around the Sun

The course of a year (January):

Axial tilt [degrees]:

Selecting a place on the Earth

Latitude:

Using mouse you can move in space and rotate the scene.

The speed of rotation is slowed against to the speed of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.