Photo: Vernal Equinox 2009: Facts on the First Day of Spring

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People raise their hands, some holding torches, to catch the first sunlight at the Teotihuacán Archaeological Site in Mexico City on the vernal equinox (or spring equinox) in 2004. The vernal equinox in 2009 falls on Friday, March 20.

Photograph by Jaime Puebla/AP

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