Four seasons - solstices
and equinoxes
Click on any of the
five panels to run the simulation it contains.
The outer four solstice and equinox simulations show the Earth over a repeating
period of five days around the relevant position in its orbit. If you watch
closely - you'll see the shadow of the Sun on the Earth shift slightly before
the simulation repeats.
The central panel simulation shows the inner Solar system - but not quite
as it really is:
The planets are displayed 2000 times larger (in radius) than they really
are (and the Sun 40 times larger).
And the central simulation image is updated once every 25 hours (in simulation
time) - so the Earth appears to rotate just once in what would really be
25 days.