Sunrise facts for kids

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Sunrise over the Dead Sea seen from Masada, Israel

Sunrise is the instant at which the upper edge of the Sun appears above the horizon in the east. It is the time when the night changes into the morning. Its opposite is the sunset.

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  • Good Morning From the International Space Station

    A sunrise over the western United States. The ISS orbits the globe in about 92 minutes therefore the crew experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets each day. Here, the station has not yet passed over the terminator, so the ground below it is still in darkness.

  • Sun rise at CuaLo

    Just after sunrise over the Cửa Lò, Vietnam, July 2007

  • Little Gasparilla sunrise

    Sunrise over Placida Harbor, Florida

  • Before-sunrise-perse-rock

    Colors 10 minutes before sunrise. Rocher Percé (Pierced Rock), Quebec, Canada.

  • False Sunrise

    This is a False Sunrise, a very particular kind of Parhelion


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