{"id":990,"date":"2023-06-19T12:38:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T07:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=990"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:45:31","slug":"q-on-21st-june-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-on-21st-june-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"Q. On 21st June, the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>does not set below the horizon at the Arctic Circle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>does not set below the horizon at Antarctic Circle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>shines vertically overhead at noon on the Equator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>shines vertically overhead at the Tropic of Capricorn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (a) does not set below the horizon at the Arctic Circle<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Equinox<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>whole earth experiences equal days and equal nights<\/strong>&nbsp;over equinox.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It occurs on&nbsp;<strong>21st March and September 23rd.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At this position, direct rays of the sun fall on the equator.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At this position, neither of the poles is tilted towards the sun i.e shines vertically overhead at noon on the Equator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Winter Solstice<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It occurs on the&nbsp;<strong>22nd of December.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>During the winter solstice, the nights are longer than the days.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On 22nd December,&nbsp; the Tropic of Capricorn is tilted towards the sun and the sun does not set below the horizon at Antarctic Circle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As the sun\u2019s rays fall vertically over the Tropic of Capricorn (23\u00bd\u00b0 S), the Southern Hemisphere receives a major portion of the sun\u2019s light.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Summer Solstice<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>During Summer solstice, the&nbsp;<strong>days are longer than the nights.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It occurs on the<strong>&nbsp;21st of June in the northern hemisphere.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On 21st June, the tropic of cancer is tilted towards the sun i.e the sun is always above the horizon and does not set below the horizon at the Arctic circle.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After the Summer Solstice, the sun starts to sink towards the horizon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As the rays of the sun fall directly on the Tropic of Cancer, the northern hemisphere experience more heat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Summer-Solstice-1024x632.webp\" alt=\"Summer Solstice\" class=\"wp-image-40517\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_291e09-92 .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_291e09-92 .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_291e09-92\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (a) does not set below the horizon at the Arctic Circle Notes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[37],"years":[54],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-geography","years-54"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":37,"label":"Geography"}],"years":[{"value":54,"label":"2019"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":37,"name":"Geography","slug":"geography","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}