{"id":24515,"date":"2021-10-05T04:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T04:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24515"},"modified":"2021-10-05T04:56:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T04:56:06","slug":"sunrise-at-the-south-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24515","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise at the South Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2110\/SouthPoleSunRise_Wolf_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Sunrise at the South Pole is different. Usually a welcome sight, it follows months of darkness &#8212; and begins months of sunshine. At Earth&#8217;s poles, it can take weeks for the Sun to rise, in contrast with just minutes at any mid-latitude location. Sunrise at a pole is caused by the tilt of the Earth as it orbits the Sun, not by the rotation of the Earth. Although at a pole, an airless Earth would first see first Sun at an equinox, the lensing effect of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and the size of the solar disk causes the top of the Sun to appear about two-weeks early. Pictured two weeks ago, the Sun peaks above the horizon of a vast frozen landscape at Earth&#8217;s South Pole. The true South Pole is just a few meters to the left of the communications tower. This polar sunrise capture was particularly photogenic as the Sun appeared capped by a green flash. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap211005.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise at the South Pole is different. Usually a welcome sight, it follows months of darkness &#8212; and begins months of sunshine. At Earth&#8217;s poles, it can take weeks for <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24515\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24516,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515\/revisions\/24516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}