Friday, December 21, 2012

Winter Solstice

Photo credit: Cheng I / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND

Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.  Where I live, we'll get just over 9 hours of daylight today.

In the very far north, the sun doesn't rise at all in the weeks surrounding the solstice.  This short film shows the new year's first sunrise in northern Greenland, where the return of the sun is an important event.

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