Posted on 06/12/2022 4:35:09 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Have you ever seen the Man in the Moon? This common question plays on the ability of humans to see pareidolia -- imagining familiar icons where they don't actually exist. The textured surface of Earth's full Moon is home to numerous identifications of iconic objects, not only in modern western culture but in world folklore throughout history. Examples, typically dependent on the Moon's perceived orientation, include the Woman in the Moon and the Rabbit in the Moon. One facial outline commonly identified as the Man in the Moon starts by imagining the two dark circular areas -- lunar maria -- here just above the Moon's center, to be the eyes. Surprisingly, there actually is a man in this Moon image -- a close look will reveal a real person -- with a telescope -- silhouetted against the Moon. This featured well-planned image was taken in 2016 in Cadalso de los Vidrios in Madrid, Spain. Do you have a favorite object that you see in the Moon?
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Great image. Thanks for posting it!
Actually, it’s a rabbit making rice candy...
Iām interested in how far away the photographer was when the picture was taken.
I see a chef flipping a double cheeseburger.
About 238,855 miles away.
That’s how far the moon is from the Earth!
Well...I don't see a man in the moon. If I move the cursor off the picture the face is more like models wearing sunglasses.
But with more of a bobbed or short hairstyle. (Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Onassis, Audrie Hepburn, etc.) The APOD smudge mouth is where their necks are. I know, nothing to do with the historical association of the "Man in the moon!"
Funny, I can only see a raccoon in a burqa knighting a black kitten wearing an Irish tweed cap atop a mound of porpoise corpses pickled in stone-ground mustard.
But that’s just me.
Asians see a “Rabbit in the Moon”..................
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