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Ever wonder what seasons are like on other planets? Astronomers are beginning to find out, and SciShow Space explains how they know, what causes the change in seasons, and what "summer" might mean on distant worlds. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/artist/52/SciShow Or help support us by subscribing to our page on Subbable: https://subbable.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Thanks Tank Tumblr: http://thankstank.tumblr.com Sources: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=seasons http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/home/F_Planet_Seasons.html http://cseligman.com/text/sky/otherseasons.htm http://www.space.com/16907-what-is-the-temperature-of-mars.html http://www.universetoday.com/19305/seasons-on-uranus/ http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/february/kepler-finds-a-very-wobbly-planet/#.Uxjz5txwOFd http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/science-kepler413b-wobbly-exoplanet-01747.html Graphics: Precession: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=53974 Uranus orbit: http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Space/EducationResource/Universe/framed_e/lecture/ch09/imgs/uranus_orbit.jpg http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/uranusorbit.png Earth axial tilt seasons diagram: http://media.web.britannica.com/eb-media/68/91868-004-6F3C45FC.gif http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/images/earthtilt.gif I would try to recreate / borrow a simple animation like these to show the sun striking the earth axial tilt seasons diagram... motion really helps: http://www.suntrek.org/earth-beyond/spinning-orbiting-earth/what-causes-seasons/watch-tilt.shtml http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007299181x/student_view0/chapter2/seasons_interactive.html http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion1/animations/seasons_ecliptic.swf http://edutube.org/en/video/what-causes-different-seasons-animation