Midnight sun in Norway

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Top Midnight Sun Pictures in Northern Norway from 2007

This is my favorite of all of his or her pictures:

The explanation, for those who've never heard of it: the Earth's axis is tilted (~23%), so while we orbit in our ellipse around the sun, parts of the Earth are tilted towards the sun and the opposite parts are tilted away. In the northern hemisphere's winter, the earth is closer to the sun than in summer, but the northern hemisphere is tilted away, meaning that it receives less (amount) and less (downtoner) direct sunlight than the southern hemisphere. This makes days shorter in lower latitudes and causes the polar night event in higher latitudes that there recently was a crazy vampire movie involving that I wanted to see (30 Days of Night). But that would mean that the picture should be dark, no, because Norway is in the high latitudes of the northern hemisphere, yes? So then the only alternative: these pictures were taken in summer, when the northern hemisphere tilts towards the sun.

Yeah, that's not the best explanation, so here's a link: axial tilt

A quicker way of figuring this out would've been just to read the photographer's description.

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