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.
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.
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.
That was absolutely breath taking.
Thank you for posting.
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.
It’s coming right for us!!
Somebody call Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman!!
True, but it's a pretty high-res image.
But with the latest technology, yeah.
Beautiful.
Nice pic. It certainly does give the appearance of orbiting the Moon.
Maybe taken from the Apollo 10 LEM…
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