When it's dark at the North pole, it is light at the south pole. WHY?
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The Earth's axis is tilted 23 degrees. Therefore, when it is winter in the Northern hemisphere, the North pole is tilted away ffrom the sun and experiences a six month night, while the South Pole has a six month long day. Then at the Spring and Autumn equinoxes, both poles get the same amount of sunlight for a few minutes at Noon.
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because it gets dark at night on this planet
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Just compare the North Pole and the South Pole. The South pole is on a continent that is mainly a high plateau (and has a higher average elevation than any other continent). The North Pole has a few islands close by, but is mainly sea ice and polynas. The South Pole as a result is markedly colder and drier than the North Pole. The topography at the South pole also creates much stronger winds due to orographic effects.
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The direction of the north magnetic pole on the earth changes slowly over time. In addition, occasionally, the north and south poles reverse with the pole in the northern hemisphere becoming a south magnetic pole and vice versa. This can be recorded in magnetic rocks and even has utility as a dating method. According to our understanding right now, we are in the middle of such a switch. This is why the strength of the magnetic filed is decreasing. Anyway, a shift is when one of these switches happens.
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The south pole has a manned base and in the middle of a wide-open flat area.  The north pole is somewhere in a huge conglomerate of unstable icebergs, is constantly shifting, and has no operations base.
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Because they are further from the sun, and therefore are colder regions, the same reason that the equator is a much warmer, temperate climate. \n\nAlso to note is that on the equator the days are almost the same length all year round and the nearer to the poles you go the more the days and nights are affected. At the north pole some times of year are permanently light and the opposite at the south pole. This is due to the Earth's tilt.
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If your in the south pole, everything is going to be north of you so the equator is north of the south pole.
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because gravity points to the center of the sphere, so no matter where you are on teh sphere, the down direction is towards the center of teh planet, wich allows penguins in teh south pole to walk on teh surface of the planet.\nIf you look at constelation however, they do appear upside down when viewed from below the equator, proving that we are walking on a sphere
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Because of the prevailing winds at that particular latitude. As for why they move faster it's basic physics. If you shine a flashlight, it is traveling the speed of light. If you use the headlights on your car, the light is traveling at the speed of light PLUS the speed of the car.
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one face is south and the other face is the north pole
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It depends upon what your latitude is.  The farther north you are in the northern hemisphere, the longer the daylight will be during the summer.  In fact, the sun won't set at all at the North Pole!  This is all thanks to the tilt of the earth.  During the summer in the northern hemisphere, the earth is in such a position around the sun that it is the northern hemisphere that is receiving the most direct rays.  It is on the summer solstice that it reaches the zenith.  From that point forward, the daylight will start to decrease until the earth is on the opposite side of the the sun.  At that date (winter solstice) the tilt of the earth will cause the northern hemisphere to receive the least direct rays and thus, the longest night will occur.
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Depends on your point of view. If you're hovering above the North pole, the earth rotates counter-clockwise. If you're hovering above the South pole, it rotates clockwise.
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The difference comes because of the tilt of our planet in space. Our planet is leaned to one side on her orbit around the Sun and around her central os. So, one of the poles (in this case the north pole) is farther away from the Sun, than is the south pole. And so is with all the areas inbetween on both sides of the equator.\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Earth%2Bwobble
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It is Olbers' Paradox.\n\nWhy isn't the night sky as uniformly bright as the surface of the Sun?  If the Universe has infinitely many stars, then it should be.  After all, if you move the Sun twice as far away from us, we will intercept one quarter as many photons, but the Sun will subtend one quarter of the angular area.  So the areal intensity remains constant.  With infinitely many stars, every angular element of the sky should have a star, and the entire heavens should be as bright as the sun.  We should have the impression that we live in the center of a hollow black body whose temperature is about 6000 degrees Celsius.  This is Olbers' paradox.  It can be traced as far back as Kepler in 1610, and was rediscussed by Halley and Cheseaux in the eighteen century; but it was not popularized as a paradox until Olbers took up the issue in the nineteenth century.
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the more north during the winter months you go from the equator, the longer the it stays dark, there is one day in a year in North Pole where it will stay dark for 24 hours, the same holds true for the southern hemisphere during its respective winter time.
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It's polar night in winter when the sun is sufficiently below the horizon, so that there is insufficient sunlight or no light at all. (A lingering dusk may occur, if the sun is only 12 degrees or less below the horizon.) \n\nA common misunderstanding is that at each point inside the polar circle the shortest day is totally dark. Because of twilight, this is not the case.\n\nSince the earth's axis is tilted with respect to the ecliptic by approximately 23 degrees 26 minutes (commonly rounded to 23 degrees and a half), the sun does not set at high latitudes in (local) summer. The duration of the midnight sun increases from one day during the summer solstice at the polar circle to approximately six months at the poles. At extreme latitudes, it is usually referred to as polar day. The length of the time when the sun is above the horizon varies from 20 hours at the Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle to 186 days at the poles.
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shorter ... im not sure what you put as the last letter is right.  In the summer the angle that the earth is tilted makes the shadows (in the northern hemisphere) SHORTER than in winter.