Page 103 - The Glory in the Heavens

and environment would

be completely different.

Dear Children,

have you ever won-
dered how night and equator
equator
day come into exis-

tence? Space is com-

pletely dark. However, The Earth is inclined to its

on our Earth, which is axis at 23° 27'. If this angle
did not exist, there would
also in space, there is be no seasons.

an alteration between night and day. In the morning,
we wake up to sunshine but when night falls, it
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becomes dark. Well, how do you think our Earth

becomes bright in the morning?

As our Earth moves along its orbit, it also turns

around itself like a spinning top. As Earth revolves

around itself, the side facing the Sun becomes light.

Unlike our planet, Uranus rotates on its side, as if

the planet has fallen over. This causes the planet to roll

around the Sun in its orbit like a barrel. The equator of
Uranus is tilted at 98° with respect to its orbit, so that

each pole is almost facing the Sun during part of each

orbit. It takes Uranus 84 earth years to orbit the sun!

Therefore, for years at a time, each of the poles receives

either continuous sunlight or is continuously in shadow.