{"id":3946,"date":"2013-08-13T14:06:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T14:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2013-08-13T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T14:06:45","slug":"sci-tech-the-sun-returns-for-antarctic-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3946","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: The Sun returns for Antarctic researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sun has once again appeared to inhabitants of the French-Italian Concordia<\/a> Antarctic research station: Morning has broken\u00a0 – ESA<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nThis is the first sunrise at the Concordia research station since last May. The photo was taken by Antonio Litterio,\u00a0one of the crew staying at the station for the whole hard Antarctic winter. He writes his\u00a0‘message to the Sun’\u00a0on the ESA’s Concordia blog about this significant moment:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“It\u2019s 11:10 on the morning of 10 August 2013, and the eastern skies are clear and radiant. I\u2019m surrounded by diffuse light, azure blue in front of me, dark blue behind. There\u2019s still no trace of you but all this anxious waiting is about to come to an end.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Slowly, on the snow, I see the first signs of you as a band of fiery red light brushes every single ripple of snow between me and the horizon. I watch the light spread. As it approaches me, it broadens like a wide embrace; I look up and there you are, in a blaze of light. I\u2019m incredibly happy. I lose myself for a moment: I only have eyes for you, I immerse myself in you and you reflect in my eyes to light up infinity.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“My heart leaps and I murmur\u00a0‘Welcome back’.\u00a0Before today, I could never have imagined how powerful you are in the mind and heart of someone who has been deprived of you for so long. Ninety days after our last goodbye, here you are once again in all your splendour.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Credits: ESA\u2013A. Litterio<\/em><\/p>\n

Follow the activities at the station via this blog: Chronicles from Concordia | Updates from the scientific research base Concordia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out these sci-fi looking habitats in the Antarctic: 5 Amazing Antarctic Research Buildings – Popular Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sun has once again appeared to inhabitants of the French-Italian Concordia Antarctic research station: Morning has broken\u00a0 – ESA This is the first sunrise at the Concordia research station since last May. The photo was taken by Antonio Litterio,\u00a0one of the crew staying at the station for the whole hard Antarctic winter. 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