Since it was warm enough to run equipment yesterday for the first time in weeks the station was a frenzy of clear drifts and shuttling trash out to the trash berm all day.
It was also clear enough out to see a stripe of orange on the horizon. The sun is rising a lot faster now. The suns speed in relation to the horizon is sinusoidal, so the closer it gets to the horizon the faster it rises. The sun moves about half a diameter vertically during the equinox (sunrise/sunset) at it's fastest.
All the heavy equipment activity lit up the power plant exhaust.
Yay new colors!!!
It is easier to see the vastness of this place now that there is more light. In the dark there wasn't really a horizon and when you were just walking around in your own little head lamp bubble it was easy to forget the huge expanse of flat nothing we are surrounded by (plus I was too busy looking at the stars).
The full moon was hiding in some clouds making a pretty eerie scene all day.
Sometimes the station looks like some kind of science fiction space station on another planet.
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