The phrase
"sunlit side" refers to the part of an object or a place that is illuminated or in direct light from the sun.
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This view looks toward
the sunlit side of the rings from about 10 degrees above their plane.
In this scene, which was acquired looking from the shadows toward
the sunlit side of the planet, a 120 - km (75 mi.)
Because the poles are always at the edge of
the sunlit side of Mercury, flat areas receive little solar energy and long shadows keep polar crater floors in perpetual darkness.
A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of
the sunlit side of Earth last month.
Then again, recent observations from orbiters have revealed mysterious dark streaks that seasonally flow down
the sunlit sides of some Martian hillsides and craters.
However, if Centauri b still has an atmosphere, it could reach temperatures up to 86 ° F (30 ° C) on
its sunlit side, and -22 ° F -LRB--30 ° C) on its darker side, bringing it into quite Earth - like temperature ranges.
It is caused by the pressure difference between
the sunlit side, where the surface ice can sublimate due to the energy provided by the sunlight, and the night side.
They show that the strong pressure difference between
the sunlit side of the comet and that in shadow generates winds able to transport grains and form dunes.
A bright wedge of Saturn's
sunlit side is seen at lower left.
This view looks toward
the sunlit side of the rings from about 10 degrees above the ring plane.
To compound the problems, in space,
the sunlit side of objects can hit 150 °C, while the shaded side can plummet to -120 °C.
The lichens were subjected to the vacuum of space and to temperatures ranging from -20 °C on the night side of the Earth, to 20 °C on
the sunlit side.
This view looks toward
the sunlit side of the rings from narrowly above the ring plane.
This view looks toward
the sunlit side of the rings from about four degrees above the ring plane.
Saturn's icy moon Mimas (lower L) is seen while looking toward
the sunlit side of the planet's rings, and was captured in red light with the Cassini spacecraft wide - angle camera on July 21, 2016, in this handout image from NASA.
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the sunlit side of Hawaii Island — also known as the Big Island — in the laid - back oceanside town of Kona.
The water vapour component of the greenhouse effect lowers the average surface temperature of
the sunlit side of Earth, because of its absorption bands in the solar near infrared.
In fact, few signs of humanity were visible, at least on
the sunlit side.
Thus there can be no effect of attenuation at any point on
the sunlit side of the sphere.
There are also problems with the MSU / AMSU warm targets, such as the effects of moving from from
the sunlit side to the night side during each orbit and changes in LECT, etc..