Alden - 45th parallel
If you stand on this line, you may not realize that the same latitude connects the prairies of South Dakota and the piney woods of Maine to the wine regions of Bordeaux, the Crimean peninsula, the deserts of Mongolia, and the northernmost tip of Japan. What do these disparate regions of the earth have in common? Only that every day the sun will shine down on each place at exactly the same angle. Sun-seeking residents of Salem, Oregon can take comfort knowing that the citizens of Turin, Italy enjoy exactly the same length of daylight on the other side of the earth.
Alden - 45th parallel
If you stand on this line, you may not realize that the same latitude connects the prairies of South Dakota and the piney woods of Maine to the wine regions of Bordeaux, the Crimean peninsula, the deserts of Mongolia, and the northernmost tip of Japan. What do these disparate regions of the earth have in common? Only that every day the sun will shine down on each place at exactly the same angle. Sun-seeking residents of Salem, Oregon can take comfort knowing that the citizens of Turin, Italy enjoy exactly the same length of daylight on the other side of the earth.