Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180707:03:59:00
It's different from the summer solstice which is the longest day of the year when the sun's path through the sky is longer than any other. that happened on june 21st. but earlier today at 9:46 a.m. outwest that was the exact moment the earth and the sun were the farthest apart that they ever get. how far? 94,507,803 miles to be precise. the earth's trip around the sun each year is not a perfect circle. it's actually an elliptical pattern. if we're the farthest from the sun we ever get, then why have we been seeing these record setting temperatures this week? well the seasons are tied to the ea...