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

Original Image by Przemyslaw "Blueshade" Idzkiewicz.
Dutch translation by Tom "Thor_NL" Ordelman.

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] archive copy at the Wayback Machine,
• and "The Blue Marble: Land Surface, Ocean Color and Sea Ice" [2] archive copy at the Wayback Machine.

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.

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summer solstice

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