The Seasons on a Planet much like Earth

• Below are the links to a series of animations intended as guides to learning about the passage of the seasons on Earth. They will run under Netscape, but they run more quickly under Internet Explorer (version 5 or better) or under Mozilla for the Mac.

• Instructions: 
  Click here for a PDF guide to learning about the Seasons on Earth with these animations.

The Seasons

• A viewpoint for observing the seasons

  1. The north pole, observed from space

  2. The pole and a northern hemisphere city

  3. A viewpoint for observing the Earth

  4. The view from this viewpoint

   

• Studying the Seasons (on a planet with a 40-day year)

1. The Seasons in a 40-Day Year

2. Seasons: Measuring Solar Intensity

3. Seasons: Fast intensity graph

4. The hours in a day...

5. Measuring the hours in a day...

6. Still not enough hours in a day, but this is faster