Image:Earth-lighting-summer-solstice EN.png

Illumination of Earth by Sun on the day of summer solstice on northern hemisphere.

Image by Przemyslaw "Blueshade" Idzkiewicz.

A view to eastern-hemisphere showing noon in Central European time zone (ignoring DST) on the day of summer solstice (on northern hemisphere - this is winter solstice on southern hemisphere).

Following third-party images were used to create this image:

• "Earth's City Lights" [1],
• and "The Blue Marble: Land Surface, Ocean Color and Sea Ice" [2].

These images come from an archive of American government agency, NASA and as such, they constitute "public domain" content.

Illumination maps were created using "Home Planet" [3] by John Walker.

This image is hereby released under cc-by-sa license.

There exists also a Polish version of this image: Image:Earth-lighting-summer-solstice PL.png

There is a Hungarian version of this image: Image:Earth-lighting-summer-solstice HU.png

There is a Swedish version of this image: Image:Jordens-upplysning-vid-sommarsolståndet-sv.png

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• Solstice
• Daytime (astronomy)