Comparison of the Cost of Various Cooking Methods: Oven, Stove, Gas, Electric, Crockpot, etc. This month's notes: February 2017: Stored US apples are still available. See your state's crop availability calendar for more specific dates of upcoming crops.
Mars Tilt. Of all the features of Mars, its axial tilt is most similar to Earth. Marsâ tilt is 25 degrees, just a fraction away from the Earthâs 23.5 degrees. And because of this tilt, Mars has seasons, just like the Earth. Of course, since Mars takes twice as long as Earth to orbit the Sun, the seasons are twice as long.
All planets in the Solar System rotate on an axis. An axis is like an invisible line running through the centre of a planet, the top of it being its north pole and the bottom of it being its south pole. It is like putting a cocktail stick through a ball and spinning it round. The axis of most planets is actually tilted. Both Earth and Mars have a tilted axis of about 23 degrees. This is what causes these two planets to have seasons. Uranus also has a tilted axis, but it is so tilted that it rotates on its side, as if the planet has fallen over! Scientists believe that this could be because an object about the same size as Earth, hit Uranus and knocked it over at some point in its distant history.