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Axial tilt is the angle between the plane of the planet's rotation about the sun, and its axis about which it rotates. The earth's axial tilt of 23.5 degrees accounts for our seasonality. North pole points away from the sun in northern hemisphere winter, and toward the sun in northern hemisphere summer. Light/heat/energy received from a source are proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance to the source. However, if you imagine shining a one square inch beam of light directly down to a flat surface, and then rotating the flat surface until only its edge receives the light, you can see that the energy striking the surface progressively diminishes, ultimately to almost zero.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoMercury: Almost 0 degrees.
Venus: 177.36 degrees (or 2.64 degrees).
Earth: 23.45 degrees.
Mars: 25.19 degrees.
Jupiter: 3.13 degrees.
Saturn: 25.33 degrees.
Uranus: 97.86 degrees (or 82.14 degrees).
Neptune: 29.56 degrees.
Venus and Uranus can have their "north pole" defined in two different ways.
That's why there are two possible answers for them.
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∙ 15y ago3.12 degrees
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∙ 13y agoMercury has a tilt of 2.11o
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Which planets axis tilt is similar to earths?
Mars has a very similar angle of axial tilt to Earth.
What planets spins horizonntally on its axis and not vertically?
Uranus: it has an axial tilt of 97.8 degrees.
Which planet has a zero tilt?
All planets have some degree of axial tilt - or obliquity. Mercury has the smallest with a tilt of only 0.027 degrees - so small as to be nearly zero.
How does the axial tilt of Saturn affect the season?
how does the axial tilt Saturn affect its season
What inner planet has a tilted axis?
Almost all planets have an axial tilt, some more than others. Mercury doesn't though.
Which planets axis tilt is similar to earths?
Mars has a very similar angle of axial tilt to Earth.
Which of the jovian planets shows us the largest inclination in its axial tilt?
Uranus
What planets spins horizonntally on its axis and not vertically?
Uranus: it has an axial tilt of 97.8 degrees.
How the orbit of the planets relates to the season?
It doesn't. Seasons are cause by a planet's axial tilt.
What does a planets amount of axial tilt affect?
It affects seasons by the angle a planet is tilted.
Tilt of axis identical to earth?
There are no other known planets whose axial tilt is EXACTLY the same as Earth, at 23.44 degrees.However, Mars' axial tilt at 25.2 degrees and Saturn's at 26.7 degrees are both pretty close.
What is the axial tilt of Jupiter?
The axial tilt of Jupiter is 3.12 degrees.
Which planet has a zero tilt?
All planets have some degree of axial tilt - or obliquity. Mercury has the smallest with a tilt of only 0.027 degrees - so small as to be nearly zero.
How does the axial tilt of Saturn affect the season?
how does the axial tilt Saturn affect its season
Why does mars have season?
because it has an axial tilt
Which planet has no axial tilt?
Mercury. It seems to have an axial tilt of less than one degree.
Which of the eight planets experiences the seasonal variation like the earth why?
Planets experience seasonal variation due to the axial tilt. Mars is most like ours and has seasons.
