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(redirected from axis of rotation)

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The researchers believe that the long cooling trend was caused by a previously recognized wobble in the Earth's axis of rotation that slowly increased the distance between the Earth and the Sun during the Arctic summer, and thereby reduced summer sunshine in the Arctic.
A spinning body, such as a planet, is most stable when its mass is farthest from its spin axis, or axis of rotation.
In their model, undulating shorelines are a consequence of a phenomenon that astronomers call true polar wander, in which Mars' axis of rotation slowly drifts in direction.
 
 
 
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