Sentences with phrase «sun nears the horizon»

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This ultraviolet image of the sun shows large sunspot group AR 9169 as the bright area near the horizon.

The nearest village, Ittoqqortoormiit, sees three months without a sunset every summer, which may help make up for mid-November to mid-January, when the sun never rises over the horizon.

At minimum sea ice extents near the equinox, the sun is below the horizon for 12 hours each day, and rises only a little bit (less than 10 degrees) above the horizon for a few minutes each day at solar local noon.

As it is, the yearly sea - ice minimum in the Arctic occurs near the Equinox, when the sun slips below the horizon at the North Pole.

The real reading measured at a point and time, of course, is always much greater except when the sun is low near the horizon.