{"id":532962,"date":"2022-07-02T13:19:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?p=532962"},"modified":"2022-07-11T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T14:12:00","slug":"light-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/light-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Light skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irminger Sea Array is at ~60\u00b0 N latitude, and we are just after the summer solstice. That means it doesn\u2019t get very dark here. With overcast skies it can be hard to tell, but when the sun is out it can play havoc with your sense of time. These pictures are from 9:30 pm local time (10:30 GMT). It can be hard to go to sleep (even after a long day of mooring operations) when the sun is shining brightly through your window!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_532963\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-532963\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-532963\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/9PM_CTD-1024x816.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/9PM_CTD-1024x816.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/9PM_CTD-300x239.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/9PM_CTD-768x612.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/9PM_CTD.jpeg 1204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-532963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Sheri N. White \u00a9 WHOI.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_532964\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-532964\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-532964\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/9PM_Spheres-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/9PM_Spheres-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/9PM_Spheres-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/9PM_Spheres-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/9PM_Spheres.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-532964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Sheri N. White \u00a9 WHOI.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_532985\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-532985\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-532985\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/2AM_view-2_IMG_5381-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/2AM_view-2_IMG_5381-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/2AM_view-2_IMG_5381-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/2AM_view-2_IMG_5381-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/2AM_view-2_IMG_5381-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/2AM_view-2_IMG_5381-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/07\/2AM_view-2_IMG_5381-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-532985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Days have been overcast and foggy here in the Irminger Sea, but last night at around 2 am the skies were clear. This is the pre-sunrise light.<br \/>Credit: Sheri N. White\u00a9WHOI.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irminger Sea Array is at ~60\u00b0 N latitude, and we are just after the summer solstice. That means it doesn\u2019t get very dark here. With overcast skies it can be hard to tell, but when the sun is out it can play havoc with your sense of time. These pictures are from 9:30 pm&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":532963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[133],"tags":[140,138,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532986,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532962\/revisions\/532986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}