0° The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres. On Earth, the Equator is an...
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The celestial equator is the great circle of the imaginary celestial sphere on the same plane as the equator of Earth. By extension, it is also a plane...
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The thermal equator (also known as "the heat equator") is a belt encircling Earth, defined by the set of locations having the highest mean annual temperature...
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Line-crossing ceremony (redirect from Crossing the equator)
English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands...
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Look up Equator, equator, or ecuatorial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An equator is the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular...
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solar equator is the latitude on Earth at which the Sun is observed directly overhead at midday. Due to the obliquity of Earth's axis, the solar equator varies...
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Following the Equator (sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad) is a non-fiction social commentary in the form of a travelogue published by Mark Twain in...
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The Suzuki Equator was a mid-size pickup truck based on the Nissan Frontier and assembled by Nissan. It was first sold in the US for the 2009 model year...
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Mercator projection (section On the equator)
projection inflates the size of objects the further they are from the equator. In a Mercator projection, landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica...
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north pole, with 0° at the Equator. Lines of constant latitude, or parallels, run east–west as circles parallel to the equator. Latitude and longitude are...
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