After sunset looking out over the bone yard
Philip K Swartz - 1960-61 - South Pole Station - Antarcticans Database Project more

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I was told that the dark band at the horizon is the Earth's shadow against its own atmosphere - this area of darkness rotated around the horizon every 24 hours, opposite the sun's position below the horizon.

Pictures from Philip K Swartz, overwinter, South Pole, 60-61