Solar eclipse

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsyst...pse/index.html

I am looking at these images and cannot for the life of me believe that the space agency would go out of its way to omit imaging which would show the cause of the polar dawn in little over a week where the North pole will be seen to emerge from the circle of illumination and bring the Sun into view -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okw6Mu3mxdM

Either sunrise, the daily and the polar dawn, is due to the rotation of the surface to the central Sun.

If humanity is intent in exploring its neighborhood outside the surface of the Earth they are first going to have to contend with a small group who simply can't leave their classrooms and the mentality that chains them to a celestial sphere ideologies. I would say that if the space agency did produce the necessary images of the North and South poles which act as a window into the orbital surface rotation they still wouldn't accept what their eyes are telling them.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1417

The key to a truly satisfying experience and a proper use of these graphics and imaging is to first appreciate the Earth's daily and orbital motions.

The Earth overtaking Jupiter at it closest point is not only in opposition in terms of the older jargon inherited from geocentricity but also the center of retrograde -

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0112...loop_tezel.jpg

The working language of astronomy should now be fairly close to normal judgments of motion as the ability to condense long term images into short sequences where people can deal with what they are presented effectively is fairly standard. For instance the Earth overtaking Jupiter and Saturn is fairly obvious -

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0112/JuSa2000_tezel.gif

With all these wonderful satellites and ground based observations there should be no difficulty observing the cause behind the observation that the Sun will come into view at the Northern polar latitude due a surface rotation as a function of the Earth's orbital motion -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okw6Mu3mxdM

I don't know how long people can hold out but it will always be there to work on for those who do appreciate that a sunrise is due to a rotating Earth.. Now we have two types of sunrises with all its productive implications.