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Earth Orbits — The Seasons

Earth Goes Around the Sun

While the Earth spins, it is also moving around the sun in a big circle called an orbit! One complete orbit takes 365 days — that is one YEAR! The Earth is about 93 million miles from the sun and travels about 67,000 miles per hour. You are zooming through space right now! The path around the sun is not a perfect circle — it is slightly oval-shaped, called an ellipse.

Earth Orbits — The Seasons

Earth Goes Around the Sun

While the Earth spins, it is also moving around the sun in a big circle called an orbit! One complete orbit takes 365 days — that is one YEAR! The Earth is about 93 million miles from the sun and travels about 67,000 miles per hour. You are zooming through space right now! The path around the sun is not a perfect circle — it is slightly oval-shaped, called an ellipse.