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Old July 30th 03, 03:05 PM
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Default The Axis (gyro) Spin orf Mars

I'm thinking of the tilting of Mars spin axis. Like earth it has
alternating summer and winter in each hemisphere. Mars has global
warming and cooling from its distance from the sun. lets suppose that
the north pole is tilted directly at the sun at the time of perihelion
passage. This has to give a more intense solar heating.(warm summer
temperatures) Not all that bad for south pole because the planet is
close to the Sun. The opposite would of course be true when Mars is at
aphelion. Now we know that all planets spin axis changes slowly
with time. Like my gyroscope spinning on my desk in earth's gravity,the
spin axis of a planet describes a circle on the heavens,centered on the
pole of the planet's orbit.(read that) What it comes down to is this.
The motion,characteristics of a spinning body(this case planet) that
feel external forces is called "precession" The Sun's gravity is the
influence in this case. Mars spin axis precesses slowly around the pole
of its orbit once in every 50,000 years All this has to be taken in,for
it changes Mars temperature, It is theorized that Mars tilt can be on
occasion as much as 45 degrees. That means at an axil tilt of 45 degrees
the average annual temp. at the poles is essentially the same as at the
equator. Here is an interesting thought . This would be true for the
earth,for its tilt would get just as bad as Mars,and we would have great
climate swings. Our moon keeps its tilt axis from going to
extremes. The moon makes life on the Earth much more habitable,and it
can be very sexy as well. Bert PS the greatest axis tilt the Earth
can have ranges from 22.5 to 24.5(not bad at all)

 




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