When to Use Seasons Earth 3D Explorer - Best Sessions and Limits
The Seasons Earth 3D Explorer fits classroom demos of axial tilt and seasons, short curiosity breaks on solstice declination, and literacy around January perihelion versus northern winter. It is an educational geometry visualization - not a climate model - so a few session types need another tool.
A five-minute classroom demo
Open Seasons Earth 3D Explorer, jump to Jun solstice then Dec solstice, and pause so students see the yellow subsolar point at about +/-23.44 deg - faster than a flat textbook diagram alone.
Tilt beats distance
Keep the facts table visible while reading obliquity 23.44 deg and perihelion about 0.983 AU in January during northern winter.
Sessions it does not fit
These sessions do not fit Seasons Earth 3D Explorer: any time you need a live day/night map of cities, comet tails, or main-belt Kirkwood gaps. Use Earth 3D Globe, Comet Orbit 3D Explorer, or Asteroid Belt 3D Explorer instead. It also needs WebGL in the browser.
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