EPOD - a service of USRA

The Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) highlights the diverse processes and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory
captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. The
community is invited to contribute digital imagery, short captions and
relevant links.


Clouds In a Fiery Sunset

February 18, 2022

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Photographer: Teresa Molinaro

Summary Authors: Teresa Molinaro; Cadan Cummings

Sunrise and sunset are beautiful times of the day to photograph the
gradually changing colors and clouds of our sky. This is embodied
by the photo above from the province of Palermo, Sicily on the evening
of July 4, 2021, when the clouds appeared to be set ablaze in a fiery
red hue. At around 9pm local time, the sky was suddenly tinged with
color that quickly changed from orange to red. The reason the sky at
sunrise and sunset is so vibrantly colored is due to light
scattering. As light passes through the atmosphere, its direction
changes when it interacts with gases and small molecules on the way to
our eyes. Longer wavelengths of light (red and orange) are not as
affected by scatter as shorter wavelength (blue and violet) light. When
the Sun angle is low on the horizon, the sunlight must pass through
comparably more atmosphere, which causes increased scattering of blue
and violet spectra. At sunset and sunrise, this unequal scattering is
why we see mainly red, orange, and yellow light on the horizon.

Photo details: Nikon D3400, 70 mm lens, 1/5 second exposure, f/4.5,
ISO-800,
* Bagheria, Sicily, Italy Coordinates: 38.083, 13.500

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EPOD - a service of USRA

The Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) highlights the diverse processes and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory
captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. The
community is invited to contribute digital imagery, short captions and
relevant links.


Partial Solar Eclipse of October 25, 2022, Observed over Athens

November 18, 2022


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Photographer: Anthony Ayiomamitis

Summary Author: Anthony Ayiomamitis

We were very fortunate to have had a great stretch of weather here in
Greece during late October that allowed us to observe the second and
final solar eclipse for 2022. This was a partial eclipse, on
October25, but it shaded as much as 86% of the Sun for some
parts of western Siberia. It was visible to residents of Europe,
northeast Africa, the Middle East and western Asia. The eclipse depth
for Athens, Greece, was approximately 38%, with the eclipse having a
duration of two hours and fifteen minutes. Maximum eclipse occurred at
13:42:56 (UT+3 local time). Note, as an added bonus there were three
active solar regions; one at each of the limbs to the east and to
the west (AR3131 and AR3126, respectively) as well as another fainter
group just south of center (AR3130).

Athens, Greece Coordinates: 37.9838, 23.7275


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* NOAA Solar Calculator
* The Sun-Earth Connection: Heliophysics
* The Sunspot Cycle
* Solar System Exploration: The Sun
* The Sun Now
* This Week’s Sky

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Earth Science Picture of the Day is a service of the Universities
Space Research Association.

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