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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Moona Lisa
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 16 Oct, 2021 | Image Credit & Copyright: Gianni Sarcone and Marcella Giulia Pace

Posted on 10/16/2021 2:26:07 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Only natural colors of the Moon in planet Earth's sky appear in this creative visual presentation. Arranged as pixels in a framed image, the lunar disks were photographed at different times. Their varying hues are ultimately due to reflected sunlight affected by changing atmospheric conditions and the alignment geometry of Moon, Earth, and Sun. Here, the darkest lunar disks are the colors of earthshine. A description of earthshine, in terms of sunlight reflected by Earth's oceans illuminating the Moon's dark surface, was written over 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. But stand farther back from your monitor or just shift your gaze to the smaller versions of the image. You might also see one of da Vinci's most famous works of art.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.

1 posted on 10/16/2021 2:26:07 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 10/16/2021 2:26:24 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Pinging the APOD list.

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3 posted on 10/16/2021 2:27:16 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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If the circles and the rows were not even, that could be a valuable work of art by that famous painter Hunter Biden. With high rollers reaching for their checkbooks.


4 posted on 10/16/2021 2:41:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Cute idea, but it’s the tones of color that do it, not anything to do with what the moon looks like.


5 posted on 10/16/2021 2:42:37 PM PDT by simpson96
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6 posted on 10/16/2021 3:13:30 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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