Night, Day and Seasons The equator itself crosses the land or territorial waters of 14 countries. If you live on the equator you will experience the quickest rates of sunrise and sunset in the world, taking a matter of minutes.
These places also have a constant twelve hours of day and night throughout the year, while north or south of the equator day length increasingly varies with the seasons. Because the equator is closer to the sun. There are seven African countries that are on both sides of the Equator.
An equator is an imaginary line around the middle earth, seven African countries. Distance between Nairobi, Kenya and the Equator. During our calculation of the distance to the Equator we made three assumptions. The crew of Apollo 17 took this photograph of Earth in December while their spacecraft was traveling between the Earth and the Moon.
The orange-red deserts of Africa and Saudi Arabia stand in stark contrast to the deep blue of the oceans and the white of both clouds and snow-covered Antarctica. In B. Eratosthenes used Aristotle's idea that, if the Earth was round, distant stars in the night sky would appear at different positions to observers at different latitudes.
Eratosthenes knew that on the first day of summer, the Sun passed directly overhead at Syene, Egypt. Well, the short answer is just over 40, km or just over 24, miles. But as always, things get a little more complicated when you look closer. To break it down, the Earth is not a perfect sphere. If it were, traveling in any direction on the planet would yield the same results. Once a person arrived back to where they started, they would notice that they had traveled the same distance, regardless of whether they went north to south, east to west, or in any number of diagonal directions.
But Earth is a flattened sphere, aka. This means that the Earth is flattened along the axis from pole to pole, such that there is a bulge around the equator.
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