Time-lapse of the Sun circling the horizon at the South Pole during early March.

Video credit: Robert Schwarz
Source: https://vimeo.com/208466944

What does the sun do at the Pole !?

Only at the Pole - the sun circles around the horizon in 24h here is a time-lapse of nearly 5 days from March 08-13, 2017. So only a few days until sunset so in…

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Cheap Oprah: Everybody gets a SunDial!

@wonderofscience The sun is glitching 😂 This is so awesome.
@wonderofscience That is both unsettling and fabulous!
@wonderofscience Wow… “Blister in the Sun”?! Given the subject of the song… maybe oddly appropriate for what denizens of the pole engage in during the endless night…
@wonderofscience I recently read the fascinating book, “Madhouse at the End of the Earth: the Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night” by Julian Sancton. It frequently discusses the sun’s position & duration above the horizon during the months it IS above the horizon, because getting to experience any sun at all was so crucial to the crew’s mental & physical wellbeing & ability to function. So it’s very cool to get to see this!
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See ..?
Flat.
Flat as.
Flattedyflat.

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Nice troll, but for anyone else that is reading this:

This actually disprove your flat earth model - it simply does not work with a flat earth :)

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Tell that a flat earther ... 😆

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I follow The Final Experiment on YouTube and it's hilarious to see all the flat earthers suddenly claiming that a 24 hours sun in Antarctica doesn't disprove flat earth, and that you can't disprove their model anyway because they don't have one.

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Sun circling?

Looks to me like the Sun is just staying put, and the Earth is turning under the camera.

@wonderofscience Lovely image - thank you. Literally brightened my day!
@wonderofscience I knew the flat earthers were on to something!
@wonderofscience google "the final experiment" inviting flat earthers to the south pole to watch the impossible 24h sun.
They now find excuses to not go or explanations how that is possible anyway.

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Suck my giant, glowing orb flat Earthers!

"Well actually," said a man in a small suit with a large head who looked an awful lot like the vice president, "as long as I ignore that the sun does not move like that anyplace else, at this or any other time, then this supports my theory that the Earth is flat."

"North pole", I said. "And there is a woman just beyond the horizon who is thinking about not being miserable." And he jogged off, with a worried look, leaving me in peace.

@wonderofscience Genius. The only other image I’ve seen where I really felt like the Earth is turning was a starscape timelapse locked to the stars.
@wonderofscience I have this sudden urge to match that video with a Boards of Canada track and see what I get...
@wonderofscience This is awesome... though of course it's the horizon doing the circling. Most of it, at least.
@wonderofscience In the summer of '99, I was visiting a friend of the family in northern Scotland and got to have a similar experience to this. There was a bit of vertical movement, and we did get an hour or two of twilight each night, but even so, it's wild to watch the sun do an apparent lap around you over the course of the day.
@wonderofscience it's hard to believe for the western european i am!