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Sunrise, finally

On Sunday , Aug 12 , Kumar snapped the above picture the first morning of the time of year . He had n’t seen the sun in more than three months . Each sidereal day the station will get more and more light-headed , until ultimately the region is drenched in 24 60 minutes of sunlight during the austral summer .

Our amazing planet.

Antarctica, Concordia Research Station

A large sponge and a cluster of anenomes are seen among other lifeforms beneath the George IV Ice Shelf.

A group of penguins dives from the ice into the water

A photo of the sun setting from the Moon

A satellite photo of a giant iceberg next to an island with hundreds of smaller icebergs surrounding the pair

A photo of a volcano erupting at night with the Milky Way visible in the sky

Map of ice-free Antarctica.

British explorers Justin Packshaw and Jamie Facer Childs are on an 80-day trek across Antarctica. Here, a penguin waddles on drift ice in the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea.

The 2021 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area on Oct. 7 and ranks as the 13th-largest such feature since 1979.

The ozone hole (blue) can be seen here over Antarctica on Oct. 4, 2019.

This image shows the two cracks captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite on Sept. 14, 2019.

Satellite footage shows Antarctica�s East Getz Ice Shelf fracturing along the margins.

A giant iceberg has calved off the front of the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica.

An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

an illustration showing a large disk of material around a star

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea

an MRI scan of a brain

A photograph of two of Colossal�s genetically engineered wolves as pups.