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Credit & Copyright: Aman Chokshi
Explanation:
Lights play around the horizon of this snowy little planet
as it drifts through a starry night sky.
Of course the little planet is actually
planet Earth.
Recorded on August 21, the digitally warped,
nadir
centered panorama covers nearly 360x180 degrees outside the
Amundsen-Scott South Pole
Station, Antarctica.
The southernmost research outpost is near the horizon at the top
where the light of dawn is approaching after nearly six months of darkness.
Along the bottom is the ceremonial pole marker surrounded by the 12 flags
of the original signatories of the Antarctic treaty, with a wild display
of the
aurora australis above.
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Antarctica
Publications with words: Antarctica
See also:
- APOD: 2024 March 10 Á A Total Eclipse at the End of the World
- A Total Eclipse at the End of the World
- Distant Neutrinos Detected Below Antarctic Ice
- Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica
- The Coldest Place on Earth
- APOD: 2011 December 11 Searching for Meteorites in Antarctica
- Solar Eclipse over Antarctica