For the entire continental United States, at no time of day and no day of the year, is the sun ever directly overhead. It just means modern people just not observant. And puts the word high in front of noon, leaves people thinking that it's directly over it. This is Star Talk. Things you thought you knew edition.
Does being in space mean there is no gravity? What does noon have to do with the Artemis Mission? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down weightlessness, planetary alignments, and what is going on on the south pole of the moon.
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Photo Credit: NASA Apollo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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