The shadow covers the south pole completely in the summer and the north pole completely in the winter taking the seasons into account. This is a great way to teach children why the seasons change and why it gets dark early in the winter. A webcam is a camera connected to the internet that publishes its image. More webcams become visible the closer you zoom in and then disappear as you zoom out, just like the weather icons. Some locations have more than one webcam and will display a menu to choose from when clicking on it.
Some webcams update more frequently than others and some suffer from frequent outages.
There are no guarantees about the availability or timeliness of the webcam images, and the list of available webcams can change without warning. Please click on the links often, many of these webcams are supported by the advertisements displayed on the websites containing them. The red arrow button in the upper left hand corner will force a reload of the webcam image. Earthquakes Earthquake information is provided by the USGS earthquake finger server . This information is updated many times per day, as needed.