{"id":298,"date":"2008-05-11T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T13:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-05-11T13:39:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T13:39:11","slug":"seeing-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the light"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I get many queries regarding the hours of sunlight that we experience at the base. At the moment, we only have a few more days of sunlight left before loosing the sun for the winter. Of course, because SANAE IV is ‘only’ at 72\u00c2\u00b0 south, we ‘only’ have 2 months of permanent darkness. The image above is a projection of the current sunlight distribution on the planet, updated hourly, with 3-hourly satellite weather photographs, so this is pretty much what the planet looks like right now. You can see a larger image here<\/a>, and a more realistic (but poorer visualisation of Antarctica) spherical projection here,<\/a> thanks to Die.net<\/a>. I’ve also added this to my current weather page, so that it will be accessible following the links on the right of the blog at any time. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I get many queries regarding the hours of sunlight that we experience at the base. At the moment, we only have a few more days of sunlight left before loosing the sun for the winter. Of course, because SANAE IV is ‘only’ at 72\u00c2\u00b0 south, we ‘only’ have 2 months of permanent darkness. The image […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}