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I was in Anchorage Alaska during the Summer Solstice. The sun rose around 3am and set around 1 am the next day-- almost 24 hours of sunlight. If the tilt of the Earth was changed to be 10 degrees, how would the length of daylight in Alaska change at the Summer Solstice

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Answer:

Daylight hours would be shorter.

Step-by-step explanation:

If there were no tilt of the axis at all, every place on the planet except the north and south poles would have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night every day of the year.

At a 10° tilt, the arctic circle and antarctic circles would be a little less than half the distance from the poles as they are today.

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