On the 23rd of January 2012 at 6.51am a man-made sun lit up Trafalgar Square in London as part of Tropicana’s Brighter Mornings campaign.
The Trafalgar Sun which took six months to create is 30,000 times bigger than a football, has a surface area of 200 m2 and weighs over 2,500kgs. Its internal light source produces 4 million lumens of light, the equivalent of 60,000 light bulbs, making the artwork visible from space.
The sun allowed Londoners to wake up to brilliant sunshine two hours earlier than normal, and if you’ve ever been to London you’ll know that every bit of sunshine is greatly appreciated.
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