SUN IS BACK AT LAST…SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING: It was behind clouds and mountains, but after nearly four months of night Longyearbyen gets 27 minutes of sunlight Tuesday
Image from UNIS webcam In one of those "naked underneath all those clothes" enticements, the sun revealed itself to Longyearbyen on Tuesday for the first...
128 DAYS WITHOUT A SUNSET, THEN TWO IN ONE DAY: Nearly four-month-long polar summer ends with double disappearance in Longyearbyen; in two months the long polar night begins
Photo by Elizabeth Bourne After nearly four months without a sunset, the sun is sinking twice in Longyearbyen on Tuesday. The ever-present solar sphere these past few...
WE’RE OUT OF THE DARK TIMES: Well, not ‘those’ dark times, but Longyearbyen begins nearly four months of midnight sun after a day with an early sunset and subsequent sunrise
Last sunset of the year photo at roughly midnight April 18 by Elizabeth Bourne. Among the many great "ordinary" things in Svalbard that screw with...
DAWN OR DECEPTION? Longyearbyen’s first sunrise of the year after nearly four months? Well, kinda…it’s complicated
The nearly four-month-long polar night is over as the sun made a dazzling return with its rays to Longyearbyen on Saturday. Except in all but...
Random weirdness for the week of Jan. 15, 2019
"Polar bear leaps onto a Russian nuclear submarine on the search for food after the crew dumped bags of rubbish into the Arctic." And with...
Random weirdness for the week of Aug. 23, 2016
The Mars Curiosity Rover has returned to Svalbard and this time you're not just allowed to drive it, but thoroughly wreck the vehicle and the...
Skyjinks: No sunset on Sunday, but last one until August on Monday – why is the sun so confused?
Separating day from night is trickier in Longyearbyen than the rest of the world most of the year as it is, but the coming week...
Random weirdness for the week of Feb. 9, 2016
You might think you're freezing your ass off, but in reality you'll be getting a reminder of just how close we are to potentially becoming...
