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OCR: DAYS, SEASONS, AND YEARS A PLANET'S DAYS, years, and seasons of the stars; a solar day is measured are defined by its movements and according to the position of the Sun. positioning relative to other celestial A planet's year is the time it takes to objects. A planet's day is the time it orbit the Sun. And the pattern of its takes to spin once. A sidereal day is seasons depends on its tilt with measured according to the positions respect to the Sun during each year. Winter in Summer in EARTH SEASONS the north the north It is summer in one The hemisphere when it is Earth winter in the other. The The Sun more directly the Sun's rays strike the Earth's surface, the warmer it is. Summer in Winter in the south the south EARTH EARTH PLANETARY DAYS SEASONS DAY'S