Posted on 07/30/2022 4:20:33 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo view from lunar orbit. The 3D anaglyph was created from two photographs (AS11-44-6633, AS11-44-6634) taken by astronaut Michael Collins during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. It features the lunar module ascent stage, dubbed The Eagle, rising to meet the command module in lunar orbit on July 21. Aboard the ascent stage are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first to walk on the Moon. The smooth, dark area on the lunar surface is Mare Smythii located just below the equator on the extreme eastern edge of the Moon's near side. Poised beyond the lunar horizon is our fair planet Earth.
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.
The moon is not very big at all. If placed over the United States, it would stretch from the Canadian border to maybe the southern tip of Louisiana, and cover about two-thirds the mid states.
Only 1.2% the mass of the earth. Not only that, but it’s tinier in the sky than your mind wants you to think. If you compared it to your pinky nail held at arm’s length, which do you think would be bigger? Most would say the moon, but they would be fools. FOOLS, I tell you.
Darnit! I only have the full size movie 3D glasses. The closest I can get to this, however, is the ViewMaster pack I have from 1969 with the three discs of
Apollo 11 .I still have the ViewMaster, too. I gotta dig them out of the box they’re in.
Not until someone places it over your country and you're trying to lift it off of you.
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