Part 3/10:
Misrepresentations and Visual Misleading
The animation used in the video simplifies the complex transition between day and night, omitting significant details about Earth's actual lighting conditions. It suggests that large swaths of the Earth's surface are in full daylight, but this is an oversimplification.
The map from Time and Date, a reputable source, visually demonstrates that at any given time, the boundary between daylight and night is not a sharp dividing line but a transition zone called twilight. The map shows:
Bright white areas: land in full daylight.
Dark areas: regions in full night.
Gradient zones in between: twilight phases, including civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight.