Saturday, 24 December 2022

Sunshine on a globe

 This caught my eye lying abandoned on the verge.

On closer inspection, it turned out to be a globe.
It looks as though it is meant to stand upright with the Earth's axis tilted at the correct 23.5 degrees but discarded on a slope as it is, the axis is more like 40 degrees to the vertical. This led me to think about what would happen if the Earth had a bigger tilt. That would mean that a greater number of countries would have 24 hour sunshine in the summer and 24 darkness in the winter. The seasons would then be more pronounced. This had the best explanation.