A Year Of Sunrises

Hundreds of pictures of Earth, each taken at about 06:00 local time, show the terminator - the day/night line - over the course of one year. The Earth is tilted with respect to its orbit, the so the angle of the sunrise line tilts first one way and then the other over time.

You can see Africa and Saudi Arabia to the upper right, and clouds frantically changing each day.

The images were taken with the METEOSAT-9 Earth-observing satellite.

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/617...

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[TheBetterGame]

Sun comes up, sun goes down. You can't explain that!

[T0B0KKE]

"How did it get there? Hmm? How the sun get there? How the moon get there?"

[nintendogamerfreak]

imagine this but in COLOUR. o:

[iani103]

Fucks given : N0ne

[Brandon Andre]

Or the tilt of the earth.

[jarrettpeter37]

I want this video on my C3320 phone.

[tvsinesperanto]

A few *billion* years, yes. Slip of the keyboard. Thanks for the correction.

[wolfy9005]

The surface, yes. But the corona is around the 2 million celcius mark, and this is what i meant would be doing to vaporising :)

[vitto]

not..it's involved but it doesn't change earth weather like the sun.

[mastermanio2]

Is the wobble now believed to cause an effect on the seasons?

I don't recall ever hearing if they eventually decided that

[mastermanio2]

it is actually caused by both the distance and the angle. Angle plays a far greater role, but the Earth's orbit is far from perfect :)