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.. title: the wide wide southern sea
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.. date: 2025-12-12 18:59:06 UTC-06:00
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.. description: In which the sun sets, viewed from Earth orbit.
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Watch the reflection of the sun move from the center of the field of
view to the Indian Ocean and become an ocean sunset thousands of miles
across.

Then, because it's solstice season, the twilight zips around
Antarctica on its way to becoming the dawn.

<video
    src="assets/sunset.mp4"
    alt="
        Video of Earth taken from a geostationary point above the
        central Pacific ocean.  The video begins and ends with the
        entire hemisphere illuminated, showing night creeping across
        from the east until the hemisphere is dark save a southern
        crescent, chased by the dawn of the next day."
    controls autoplay loop
></video>

([source](https://bsky.app/profile/earthin24.bsky.social/post/3m7r5i4bytp2q))
