How An Equinox Looks From Space | Video

Monday, March 19, 2012 - 19:30 in Astronomy & Space

Each year - on the first day of Spring and of Fall - Earth's tilt allows a roughly equal amount of sunlight to fall on both sides of the Equator. During such Equinoxes, day and night are as close to equal in length as they will ever be.

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