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Recent Examples of sunlight
By blocking sunlight, those rings may have caused an ice age.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Blue Ghost basked in sunlight for the vast majority of the mission until lunar nightfall brought darkness to the landing site on Sunday.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
During the eclipse, the sunlight the Earth was blocking similarly separated into its constituent colors, with blue wavelengths being scattered through the atmosphere, while longer red wavelengths passed right through and traveled to the moon.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
Thus one of the main rationales for DST, which is to conserve energy by maximizing the utility of natural sunlight, is substantially reduced.
—James Bickerton, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Blue Ghost basked in sunlight for the vast majority of the mission until lunar nightfall brought darkness to the landing site on Sunday.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
During the eclipse, the sunlight the Earth was blocking similarly separated into its constituent colors, with blue wavelengths being scattered through the atmosphere, while longer red wavelengths passed right through and traveled to the moon.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
Thus one of the main rationales for DST, which is to conserve energy by maximizing the utility of natural sunlight, is substantially reduced.
—James Bickerton, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Sunlight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunlight. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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