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

Illumination of Earth by Sun on the day of winter 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 winter solstice (on northern hemisphere - this is summer 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-winter-solstice PL.png
• There is a Hungarian version of this image: w:hu:Image:Earth-lighting-winter-solstice HU.png
• There is also two French versions of this image: w:fr:Image:La Terre au solstice d'hiver.png and Image:Earth-lighting-winter-solstice FR.png
• There is also a Latin version of this image:Image:Earth-lighting-winter-solstice LA.jpg

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