The phenomenon occurs because the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun as the planet rotates around it, and Antarctica is at its closest point to the sun on the rotation.
Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...
The axial tilt of the Earth means that as our planet journeys ... the pole that extends from this half of the planet is pointed towards the sun. Thus in the Southern Hemisphere, that pole points ...
By Valentine's Day, the sun rises at 6:54 a.m. and sets at 5:44 p.m., giving us 10 hours and 50 minutes of sunlight. And then ...
From the warmest year on record to an arctic blast and even snow, marine biologists are concerned about weather and climate ...
By imaging the dunes, scientists can figure out how much CO2 frost forms on the dunes during the Martian winter. When temperatures grow warmer in the spring, the frost sublimates, transitioning from a ...