Posted on 04/03/2025 11:29:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: A 26 hour old Moon poses behind the craggy outline of the Italian Dolomites in this twilight mountain and skyscape. The one second long exposure was captured near moonset on March 30. And while only a a sliver of its sunlit surface is visible, most of the Moon's disk can be seen by earthshine as light reflected from a bright planet Earth illuminates the lunar nearside. Also known as the Moon's ashen glow, 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. Of course earthshine is just the most familiar example of planetshine, the faint illumination of the dark portion of a moon by light reflected from its planet.
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The full earth as seen from the moon is about 50 times brighter than the full moon as seen from the earth. That’s due to the clouds, the oceans, and earth being about 4 times the moon’s diameter. It would be interesting to land people on the moon while it’s new. They’d probably have plenty of light, even though it would be cold.
That’s a first-class wowser. Thanks.
Wow - I never would have thought this could happen.
I for one welcome our new moon.
β Theyβd probably have plenty of light, even though it would be cold.β
Is it ever NOT cold on the moon?
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