Posted on 03/20/2015 12:28:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Today's date marks an Equinox and a New Moon. Remarkably, while the exact timing of both geocentric events occur within a span of only 13 hours, the moon also reaches its new phase only 14 hours after perigee, the closest point in its orbit. That makes the Equinox New Moon the largest New Moon of 2015, though hard to see since that lunar phase presents the Moon's dark, night side to planet Earth. Still, in this well composed image of a young lunar phase from late January you can glimpse both night and day on the lunar surface, the night side faintly illuminated by Earthshine next to the day side's brightly sunlit crescent. But some will see today's Equinox New Moon in silhouette! The Equinox Solar Eclipse will be total across stretches of the Arctic Ocean, visible in partial phases from Europe, northern Africa and western Asia.
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[Credit: Dylan O'Donnell]
Beautiful photo.
It’s a nice, round little rock, isn’t it?
We need to find a way to live there so stepping off into deeper space is easier.
I also think it would be cool to look up and see lights in the darkness of the moon.
‘Nothing like relaxing in the backyard in the evening, taking in the sunshine and earthshine with some moonshine ......
I wouldn’t mind hanging out there for a bit. :)
It explains term ‘mooning’:)
The men who have been there say its actually more colorful than it looks from here.
;’)
Interesting. Hadn’t heard about that before.
My FRiend sent this to me the other day. For your and other’s interest. It’s too technical for me, but I still enjoyed it:
Moon Hoax Not:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU
The Moon also provides perhaps the sole destination to build interest in and participation in human space travel. The eventual expense of the so-far-unavailable and *suborbital* SpaceShipTwo flights will make them basically a creme-de-la-creme experience. Lunar vacations — a few days there, a week in orbit, and a few days back — could open the experience up to hundreds of thousands, who would find it worthwhile, and those flight could bring about the kind of cost reduction for millions to follow.
Of course, they’ll spend the rest of their days listening to idiots who claim that they never actually went there...
It just makes me sad that leftist Hollyweirdos will get to go before I do. ;)
He sounds like a liberal but he ain’t wrong. Going to the moon in the 60s was a lot easier than faking it.
When people tell me NASA is hiding evidence of life on mars, I want to know why NASA chooses to hide the one thing that would cause their budget to inflate by hundreds of billions of dollars.
I got that feeling, too. Especially from the comments at the end, but enjoyed the video and him. I enjoy people that are smart and reasoned even if some of what they say is over my head.
I want to get to Mars and beyond but we really need to master living on the moon first. Its a far harsher environment than mars and if you can continuously man a station on the moon for a few years, mars is easy (Survivablity wise).
Mars doesn’t have two week nights, temperatures are cooler during the day and warmer at night than the moon. Mars isn’t a hard vacuum so martian space suits and habitats don’t face same pressurization stresses.
As a photographer I already knew why we couldn’t see stars in the photos from the surface of the moon.
See! You are one of those smarties I was talking about. :)
Also from my FRiend. I love English humour. Only two minutes long:
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