The central part of the shadow will pass 330 km below the South Pole; 90% of the Sun will be covered at the part of Antarctica south of Patagonia, South America. However IAU warns that because the ...
The phenomenon occurs because the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun as the planet rotates around it, and Antarctica is at its closest point to the sun on the rotation.
Schalau returned to Fargo last fall after spending a year cooking for a research station at the South Pole. Before he headed south in September 2023, Schalau was a cook at Luna for two years. Upon his ...