Although the arrow is pointing in the wrong direction, it is approaching Polar noon at the South Pole and midnight at the North as those latitudes continue to turn in a small circle thereby creating a day/night cycle separate to daily rotation -

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...precession.svg

The pool of water around the North Pole will continue to become more and more frozen as the area remains opposite to the Sun for a number of months even when the maximum area in complete darkness starts to contract in a few weeks time.

It did strike me yesterday that even when a necessary adjustment was necessary to bring dates back in line with the orbital points that certain academics who considered themselves 'enlightened' refused to make the correction until over 150 years after the Church did. I understand that the same dreary mentality is alive and well today even when the same people moan about saving the planet and dire consequences.

The fact is that aside from daily rotation and all its effects, the entire surface of the planet turns parallel to the orbital plane so although Copernicus only framed it in terms of the North and South Poles, imaging range and power now affirms the entire surface of all planets do turn as a function of their orbital motions.

"The third is the motion in declination. For, the axis of the daily rotation is not parallel to the Grand Orb's axis, but is inclined [to it at an angle that intercepts] a portion of a circumference, in our time about 23 1/2°. Therefore, while the earth's center always remains in the plane of the ecliptic, that is, in the circumference of a circle of the Grand Orb, the earth's poles rotate, both of them describing small circles about centers [lying on a line that moves] parallel to the Grand Orb's axis." Copernicus, Commentariolus