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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Largest Satellites of Earth
NASA ^ | 12 Jun, 2023 | Image Credit & Copyright: Tianyao Yang

Posted on 06/12/2023 1:31:48 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: What’s that near the Moon? It’s the International Space Station (ISS). Although the ISS may appear to be physically near the Moon, it is not — it is physically near the Earth. In low Earth orbit and circulating around our big blue marble about every 90 minutes, the ISS was captured photographically as it crossed nearly in front of the Moon. The Moon, itself in a month-long orbit around the Earth, shows a crescent phase as only a curving sliver of its Sun-illuminated half is visible from the Earth. The featured image was taken in late March from Shanghai, China and shows not only details of Earth's largest human-made satellite, but details of the cratered and barren surface of Earth's largest natural satellite. Over the next few years, humanity is planning to send more people and machines to the Moon than ever before.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 06/12/2023 1:31:48 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 06/12/2023 1:32:10 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.

🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔


3 posted on 06/12/2023 1:32:26 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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Looks very much like China has mastered real-time phase correction with adaptive optics.

Impressive picture. Must have been timed to within a few tenths of a second.


4 posted on 06/12/2023 1:39:17 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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That was absolutely breath taking.
Thank you for posting.


5 posted on 06/12/2023 1:42:28 PM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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Using a camera with high frame rate video capability to image lunar/ISS, timing is not such a huge factor, and any bad frames can be easily removed prior to processing the data.


6 posted on 06/12/2023 1:58:05 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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It’s coming right for us!!

Somebody call Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman!!


7 posted on 06/12/2023 2:14:43 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: dragnet2
Using a camera with high frame rate video capability to image lunar/ISS, timing is not such a huge factor, and any bad frames can be easily removed prior to processing the data.

True, but it's a pretty high-res image.

But with the latest technology, yeah.

8 posted on 06/12/2023 2:15:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: MtnClimber

Beautiful.


9 posted on 06/12/2023 2:42:48 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Nice pic. It certainly does give the appearance of orbiting the Moon.


10 posted on 06/12/2023 3:17:21 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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Maybe taken from the Apollo 10 LEM…


11 posted on 06/12/2023 4:57:27 PM PDT by NavyShoe
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