Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth’s Climate Interactives
Example image showing how changes in eccentricity affects Earth’s climate
NASA/JPL-Caltech
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| Heliophysics Big Ideas |
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| NGSS |
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| Heliophysics Topics |
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| Material Cost per Learner | Free |
| Language | English |
Three interactives showing how each Milankovitch Cycle affects Earth’s climate. Each of them comes with accompanying text, images, and interactive tools to provide background on these cycles and their effects.
"Our lives literally revolve around cycles: series of events that are repeated regularly in the same order. There are hundreds of different types of cycles in our world and in the universe. Some are natural, such as the change of the seasons, annual animal migrations or the circadian rhythms that govern our sleep patterns. Others are human-produced, like growing and harvesting crops, musical rhythms or economic cycles."