What is the definition of earth's revolution ?
The earth's revolution refers to its movement around the
sun. While the sun revolves around the sun, it also rotates about its axis
thereby exposing various parts of the earth's surface to radiation from the sun
at different times leading to different seasons for different parts of the
earth' surface
Earth's revolution around the Sun takes much longer than its
rotation on its axis. One complete revolution takes 365.24 days, or one year.
The Earth revolves around the Sun because gravity keeps it in a roughly
circular orbit around the Sun. The Earth's orbital path is not a perfect
circle, but rather an ellipse, which means that it is like a slight oval in
shape . This creates areas where the Earth is sometimes farther away from the
Sun than at other times. We are closer to the Sun at perihelion (147 million
kilometers) on about January 3rd and a little further from the Sun (152 million
kilometers) at aphelion on July 4th. Students sometimes think our elliptical
orbit causes Earth's seasons, but this is not the case. If it were, then the
Northern Hemisphere would experience summer in January
During one revolution around the Sun, the Earth travels at
an average distance of about 150 million kilometers. Mercury and Venus take
shorter times to orbit the Sun than the Earth, while all the other planets take
progressively longer times depending on their distance from the Sun. Mercury
only takes about 88 Earth days to make one trip around the Sun. While Saturn,
for example, takes more than 29 Earth years to make one revolution around the
Sun.
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar