Arctic Circle

Now we reach into one of the biggest problems for the Flat Earth model, the midnight sun.

North of the Arctic Circle, the sun can stay about the horizon for 24 hours during summer.

That actually fits very well in the cladic.

I'll try again, sorry.

You're heading towards where?

The Arctic Circle.

It's a little different for me.

On a cruise.

Okay.

I spent a week in Rovianemi and outside of Rovianemi.

Went above the Arctic Circle.

And I think, obviously, this one's a great place to visit in the winter.

I'm planning, and I paid for the flights over the weekend for my St. Petersburg deal, and I've been communicating with some organizations over there, hoping to get some...

Some valuable content, and it's pretty cool because I'm going to go up to the Arctic Circle.

I'm going up to the city of Murmansk, which is where the Russian Northern Fleet is based, and also where their nuclear icebreaker fleets are.

And they have a tour of the Lenin.

The Lenin is the largest icebreaker and nuclear, and you can get on and go on a tour of it.

And the train ride from...

From St. Petersburg to the Arctic Circle, this will tell you something.

It's like a 24-hour train ride, and I'm getting a Harry Potter-style... you know booth a coo a a luke's that's a lux it's a luxury and it's i mean that's not but i'm traveling in there and and it's uh so inexpensive uh comparison to what it would cost here and uh i'm i want to go up there and one of the interesting things about that is that the during that time period it's going to be um completely dark.

The pestilence, right? It's like, oh my gosh, where did this come from, right? I know this sounds silly, but I was invaded, literally invaded by cockroaches when I lived in Murmansk.

I was in the Arctic Circle.

And there were cockroaches everywhere.

Now, praise God, they weren't Texas cockroaches that are like everywhere.

That tilt creates the four seasons, long days and short nights.

And, most important for this story, draws to special circles of latitude, the Arctic Circle at 66.5 degrees north.

and the antarctic circle at sixty six point five degrees south inside those circles each year has at least one day when the sun does not set the midnight sun and at least one night when the sun does not rise that is why the definition of polar on earth is not arbitrary it is a direct consequence of the geometry around a tilted axis the south pole the geographic one magnetic polar side lies at ninety degrees south everything from sixty six point five degrees forward is called the polar region and antarctica with its research stations its three kilometer thick ice and its minus eighty degree storms is the most famous part of it but the moon is not the earth and that is exactly where eying set his scalpel down on the table the moon's rotational axis is tilted only about one point five degrees from the plane of its orbit stand at the lunar pole and the sun never climbs more than one point five degrees above the horizon the consequence is a strange astronomical spectacle at the moon's poles there is no day and night of the earthly kind only a landscape of interlocking light and shadow where deep craters can be dark forever and tall peaks can be lit almost eternally so the moon's polar region by that same geometric logic must be far narrower than earth's the polar circle does not sit at sixty six point five degrees it hugs the line at eighty eight point five degrees exactly one point five degrees wide exactly matching the tilt of the axis from there ion reached his conclusion the moon's south pole currently understood as a matter of astronomical geometry is only the band from eighty eight point five to ninety degrees south NASA, in its Artemis Program documents and polar region studies, uses a broader, more practical definition.

The entire region from 80 to 90 degrees south is treated as the lunar south pole for planning purposes, because across that band sunlight is already low enough, shadows already long enough, and water ice already plausible in the dark craters.

but by ayang's strict eighty eight point five degree yard stick the true polar region of the moon is far smaller a quarter the width of nasa's and many times narrower than the sixty six point five to ninety degree band most people picture when they hear the word south pole with earth in mind Now place Chandrayaan-3's numbers on the table.