{"id":892,"date":"2014-09-23T04:25:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=892"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:11:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:11:55","slug":"the-equinox-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/the-equinox-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you visit sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/sunearth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this one<\/a>, you can see maps showing which parts of the earth are sunlit\u00a0and which are in darkness. Normally the maps look something like this:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-893\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2014\/09\/sunmap-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2014\/09\/sunmap-1-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"Map Of Night And Day\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2014\/09\/sunmap-1-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2014\/09\/sunmap-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map Of Night And Day &#8211; Image From TimeAndDate.com (Click the image for a larger and clearer version)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Notice the wavy band of dawn\/dusk snaking its way across the globe. Notice that the poles are completely in night or day.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, is one of the two days of the year when the picture looks different.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-896\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2014\/09\/sunmap-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-896\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2014\/09\/sunmap-2-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"Day And Night During The Equinox\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2014\/09\/sunmap-2-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2014\/09\/sunmap-2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day And Night During The Equinox &#8211; Image From TimeAndDate.com (Click the image for a larger and clearer version)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today is the Equinox, when the tilt of the earth makes no difference to the length of day and night, when the sun sets and rises in the poles.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that the wavy pattern has been replaced by a solid square that moves across the face of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few days, this solid square will bleed upwards to cover the north pole, bathing the Arctic in darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you visit sites like this one, you can see maps showing which parts of the earth are sunlit\u00a0and which are in darkness. Normally the maps look something like this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[504,367,502,505,503,506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}