South Pole Lunar Time-Lapse by Glen Kinoshita

[Chriz7164]

I don't know how I would survive with 6 months of daylight Dx

[dalep3287]

Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about but isn't Antarctica supposed to be twilight about right now?

[dalep3287]

@dalep3287 ooo wow...my bad...im an idiot...didnt see when it was posted...fail

[georgemichealelvis]

burrrrrrr.......

[scooterdooter]

First of all, brilliant, and thank you for sharing your work with us. You are helping us to understand our own planet.

I am a bit upset by the concave shape of the Earth in this presentation, as it (while capturing more data) presents a more confusing representation of the actual curvature of the Earth than if it were convex.

That being said, the detail is amazing, and the brutal harshness of that environment is something no UToob mousepad-jockey can really ever imagine...

Fine work!!!

[sdrawkcab190]

Bright moon!

[BatNuklier]

this is awesome! you mean you can see space and day time there? day time and night time? one day I want to travel to the south pole!

[fuckmania07]

FUCKING COOL !!!!

[Infrared63]

Very, very cool!

[jb42682]

Wow!

[mslagrada]

It's beautiful and scary at the same time because those lights are caused by solar winds, isn't it? Imagine without our atmosphere protecting the earth then what catastrophe would those solar winds cause.

[theGAGApolice1]

cool

[chizzlemang]

amazing

[aniketde]

Awesome !! Love the auroras !

[Journeyst]

wow is it real?

[lexhus]

I love it.. I just wish we'd stop destroying such beauty!

[ocsgallagher]

....*SIGH*....

[beachbelle80]

TRULY AMAZING. I enjoyed this video so much. Thank you!!

[ank470]

amazing video....

[TimReed22222]

Wow, love it when the aurora (southern lights) go crazy @ 1:53, and the moon w/the ring around it beginning around 2:30.

And yeah that's the moon, not the sun. That's why you can see stars & aurora - it's night! It's the really long exposures that makes it look like day.

[puretroubleman]

I'm lost, are both the objects in the sky the moon? and if so why is one brighter than the other?

[TimReed22222]

Hmm, good catch, it IS certainly brighter the second time around.

It's definitely the moon both times (the description says 13 seconds = 1 hour, so 3' of video would be about a day). My guess is that the same thing that's causing that ring - high icy clouds - are diffusing the moon's light making it look bigger, just like the sun on a thinly-overcast day.

[1m2wgood]

I was googling a diagram of earth and moon orbit. I guess the glowing objects are the same object. Coz i think it is impossible to have moon and sun running from east to west at the same height from the level. Moon rise and Sunrise aint running on the same orbit, Anyone agree?But i cant explain why the 2nd one is brighter if that is not a sun

[drout0]

hm why is the light at the beginning of the video less bright than the one at 2:30 ?...

[tizerist]

amazing

a whole continent, just empty

would love to go there

[ohadrean]

Man I feel upside down.

[jk01197]

hahaha xD

[Sasha0K]

here you really feel that it's Earth's rotation, not sky's... Great!

[jabego215]

Thats amazing!!!

[Nibiru1975]

really liked this witht he stars during the day..

[plavins1]

i cant remember the name of that green thing on the sky but looks simply amazing!!!

[ModPCLM]

'northern lights'

[plavins1]

yeah thats was the word!!!

[ModPCLM]

:D ,

[MojtabaParsa2000]

can stars really be seen during the day?

[bardardo]

simply amazing

[7855waldo]

At this point, it's automatic.

Pick up a history book, and watch the author ignore the exact event dates.

Example: "John Adams," by McCullough (otherwise, excellent).

Here we go again.

What date did the filming begin?

On what date did it end?

[deeppipeinhaler]

How can you see the stars (constellations) during the (24 hr) daytime?

[Houston4444]

I find it so amazing to know that there's 24 hours darkness there when its summer in the north

[AsheyaLalintoth]

I bet the researchers there get pretty depressed from March through September. Going for such a long time without being in the Sun will do that to anyone.

This is an incredible video. Thank you for posting it! : )

[comeandgetme1118]

i want to spend my vacation there

[Schliengen]

at 2:00 there's a real solarstorm...

[myownreflection10110]

what are those black things on the snow toward the station?

[54spiritedwill54]

wondeful video!

[indue78]

meraviglioso

[T3chn4K]

super super awsome, what brings you to parts of the world that are this cold? research?

[pacauchon]

I'm afraid I've never actually been to Antarctica! This video again was taken not by me but by Glen Kinoshita who was at the Admunsen-Scott Station for research. Not much else besides research happens there.

[Armin600]

AWESOME video!

just a few questions:

If this is a period of just one day, then why is their "darkness" and "light" during the 24-hour period. I thought there was supposed to be CONTINUOUS sunlight or CONTINUOUS darkness for a given 6-MONTH period (approx)

OR is the "continuous light" given by the reflection of the sun OFF the moon during the first 12 hours and followed by the ACTUAL sun for the other 12 hours for this particular day?

please explain.

[pacauchon]

You are correct about the total darkness between March and September, and total light between September and March.

The darkness you see is only apparent by the contrast of the sun shining directly into the camera.

On a sunny day, staring at a field will be considerably darker when compared with staring directly into the sun.

The same situation occurs here. All of Antarctica is lit, it just appears brighter the closer the sun is to pointing directly into the camera.

[RyAxis]

so how do they know were's east, south, west or north? :|

[pacauchon]

good question.

north, south, east, and west could still be determined using finely tuned magnetic compasses, except when directly on the true magnetic pole.

also, GPS can do marvelous things orientation-wise, no matter where you are.

[Hansolo60]

Yeah, now I remember.

[ashrafkamal1999]

thanks

good addition

[VolcanicBasalt]

Wonderfuuuuuuuuuuul

[Damanic84]

great video...!

[Hansolo60]

There is no night time.

[Damanic84]

one half year day one half year night!!!

[dodero2008]

good job!!!!!!!!!!

[Ru55e]

Trsè jolie vidéo, j'apprécie beacoup l'effet de lumière entre le sol et le ciel étoilé. C'est vraiment un superbe spectacle.

Very nice video, really amazing and Impressive :)

[xbatusai]

where is my niiiiiiiight!!?

[polie04]

I was there when Glen took this. A year at the Pole: most awesome year of my life.

Polie04

[Faxor4Life]

Awesome video :D

The lights was cool :D

Where is the nibiru by the way? :p

[Bond007x]

I don't totally get it. Were the Moon and Sun facing each other? I mean. When we could see the Moon, was the Sun behind the camera and vis versa? Or does the Sun set and the Moon is just illuminated ?

[polie04]

Sun doesn't set at the Pole in summer; it just goes round and round.

Polie04

[muemue511]

thats the moon. not the sun.

[Armin600]

polie04 - if the Sun doesn't set during the summer, then are you saying that you can see BOTH the Sun AND the moon opposite each other at the same time?

(i believe that's the same question asked by Bond007x)

so when we see the Moon in this video, is the Sun just on the otherside, BEHIND the camera?

and when we see the Sun (at the end), can we ALSO see the moon behind the camera?

[pacauchon]

You are correct again!

At the time of this video, the Sun was behind the Moon and the Moon behind the Sun, relative to the camera. But the opposite of the Sun is not always the Moon. In fact, there have been occurrences of Antarctic Total Solar Eclipses. The last one being in 2003 and the next being in 2021. During these times, the Sun and Moon appear in the same point in the sky rather than opposite each other.

At other times, they appear at various points of "oppositeness."

[mariaesther28]

ecxume.... an may be a stupid question.... do you have had windows that you saw from inside this marvellous earth feast?????

[pacauchon]

Don't worry, your question is not stupid. This video was taken from a camera on top of one of the buildings at the South Pole Station. The aurora is visible from the windows of the station, however.

[PanDa46fluffpot]

cool!

[lostangel054]

soo beaituful look's like a rainbow

[methos789]

hermoso, esa aparente alfombra blanca infinita, la aurora, las estrellas y el sol que no se oculta, todo en el mismo cielo, de verdad es un paisaje hermoso

[PissedJelly]

I'm gonna build a hotel there when I get rich, anyone wanna come visit? :)

[hydrogen800]

Ahh,beautiful nature!

[Ignoramus4]

is this 24 houers?

[MrLunk]

seems to be yes

[pagani8]

@Ignoramus4 Yeah!

[goldenamorak]

aome music would b nice :P

[pacauchon]

@goldenamorak two years later, but it's done. check the video description. i think i found a fitting song.

[juujoo200]

Hmm...Beautiful,I've seen them in real nature too.Even though they were aurora borealis,the northern lights. (P.S. I live in Finland) ;)

[CamiloSanchez1979]

if you are down there please say so

[charlessavarese]

The bottom of the fuckin' world. I wanna go home.

[giannitumino]

wondeful video!

[indyracefan]

...awesome, that's just too cool!

[boogschd]

:drool:

[jcmegabyte]

Pretty cool. The aurora is intense!

[LastAmericanPatriot]

WOW !!!!

[phrige]

thats really incredible.. soo beautiful.. i love the aurora australis

[crankdat1on1]

pretty strange, if you ask me.

[Sselena1973]

So the sun doesn't rise a set in the south pole...it goes around....

[swbuza]

Durrrr

[xxdamonxx77]

It looked like in this case the ring around the moon was caused by snow crystals thrown aloft by the wind. In the background around 1:48 it looks fuzzy until after the moon moves out of the camera's view.

[verdaderoernesto]

Ilove this, I wish I could ever see that, I'd like to see how the sun or the moon draws cirlces in the sky!, but since I'm from a country right over the Ecuator, I don't think I will ever see that, thanks for the viedo I always wanted to know if the sun passed slowly from east to west as it is in my country or gave cirles everyday for a few months

[zurfergoth]

one more thing: can I borrow your video?? Is Really awesome to make a cool music video.

[zurfergoth]

soo, awesome!! but if you made this video, maybe you can answer me this question: It is true that in the south pole 6 months is day light and 6 months is only night??

[pacauchon]

i did not record this video. it came from noaa, i just posted it. its not always like half and half; but there is a lot of twilight time. if you look at the way the earth rotates on the 28 degree axis, during half the year, the south pole spins around in a manner such that it is exposed to the sun for quite a bit of time. the other half of the year, it is the exact opposite.

[Kamelotter]

It's a pretty impressing video, look the sun angle doesn't change at all that day, proof that it was taken on the 90th latitude.

Also the aurora australis is pretty fascinating, absolutely great video!

[nommy0815]

It's not the sun you can see in this awesome viedo, it's the Moon. You would not see any aurora if it was the sun.

[kook2222]

The sun is rising at the end.

[Lawpark]

Wouldn't it be odd to walk outside and see that in the sky? Most people would definately freak out.

[MentorOfMinos]

That why Inuits and other eskimo people have written into their theology/mythology. Well, the northern lights anyway. Ancient people have never lived on Antarctica. It's just too damn brutal and far away from other civilizations!

[amphibian62]

You may be right but also you may be wrong.That continent flowed there. it may have been elsewhere where plants and animals thrived.

Amphibian

[drownanout]

Wow, at 2:00 the aurora borealis got really intense. This is not Alaska for the record. Look at the trajectory of the sun's path through the sky, there's no horizontal movement. Only at the poles does that happen.

[tnsxbdyc]

Dude Thats SWEET!!!!

[mghollis38]

Wow.... this is really cool. I'm assuming this is a whole year's worth of time lapse. Correct?

[JollyBrownGiant]

A year? No. One day.

[mghollis38]

No.... not at the pole. Ever heard of the "land of the midnight sun?" That's Alaska, so I would assume it would be the same in the southern hemisphere.

[stephyadele]

and god will say "I tried to create extremely inteligent life, but they were distracted, greedy for a thing called money instead of just loving the wonderful gift of the land that I gave them. Was a good experiment I guess..."

[pacauchon]

man.... nihilism much?

it's an unprovable and therefore moot point, but, i doubt the earth will rid itself of us.

don't get down on humanity; be happy, and responsibly enjoy God's creation! :)

[stephyadele]

You used this word in teh wrong context. But that's ok. I believe in god I believe in the good of a some humanity, I jst think that the number of good are just unfortunatly to small, and we are just hurting the earth, global warming, polution, garbage, oil (blood of the earth) and we won't last for ever, the earth on the other hand... will

[singedrac]

Actually the earth will only last a few more billion years before the sun eats it up.

[stephyadele]

wow, that's Awe-inspiring. Wonderful, the world is a beautiful place. and as a good song once said "... we're like the dinosaurs, only we're doing ourselves in much faster then they ever did..." the fantastic thing is that beautiful scene we just watched will continue on, most likely forever, the earth will one day cleanse itself of the sickness that it has called human beings. And all other life will evolve and continue on....

[gregkahuna1]

Am I hallucinating or did I see some auroras?

[pacauchon]

no. you are not hallucinating.

[portvale999]

omfg... the world is that beutiful! ive never realised, but hwat are we doing to this wonderful creation... :'(

[Nd4Spdlegend]

i wanna go there

[cabletim88]

As the World Turns

[balkus1]

now I can see the earth really spins!

[fstsw]

Might see aurora pretty far south some day as the magnetic swap does its thing.

[spongebob3241]

k the first one looks like the moon but the second one looks like the sun.., its soooooo bright.. is that just cuz thats half way through the rotation of the earth so its just closer or what?

[pacauchon]

yep the first is the moon the second is the sun. a couple factors contribute to the bright appearance of the sun and the moon. the atmospheric density is lower (all the way down to 675 millibars in the winter!) also, the cold temperature reduces the amount of water vapor in the air, allowing for less diffusion of the suns rays. the earth's tilt also provides for some of the discrepancy in the brightness.

the fact that its covered in reflective snow and ice might have a bit to do with it too ;-)

[Lundamyrstrollet]

Fantastic! It's so beautiful

[peached64]

this just happens to be the most awesome thing i have ever seen. ever. now dont anyone argue with me. its fantastical.

[xWAMPUSx]

!!!THAT WAS SO AMAZING!!! how many nights do you get the aurora?

[pacauchon]

The aurora can be seen between the months of March and September; at other times, the south pole is in a state of constant daytime, which drowns out the magnificent light show. Because the aurora is caused by solar wind (a stream comprised of electrons flaring out of sunspots) energizing nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere, the activity can best be seen during and after the sun's sunspot cycle.

[Viriatus]

wow that is amazing. That's one of my objectives in life: to see an aurora. Too bad i can't see them where i live...