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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Planet Lines Across Water
NASA ^ | 5 May, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Jose Antonio Hervas

Posted on 05/05/2025 12:08:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Whatโ€™s causing those lines? Objects in the sky sometimes appear reflected as lines across water โ€” but why? If the waterโ€™s surface is smooth, then reflected objects would appear similarly -- as spots. But if the water is choppy, then there are many places where light from the object can reflect off the water and still come to you -- and so together form, typically, a line. The same effect is frequently seen for the Sun just before sunset and just after sunrise. Pictured about 10 days ago in Ibiza, Spain, images of the rising Moon, Venus (top), and Saturn (right, faint) were captured both directly and in line-reflected forms from the Mediterranean Sea. The other bright object on the right with a water-reflected line is a beacon on a rock to warn passing boats.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa

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1 posted on 05/05/2025 12:08:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 05/05/2025 12:09:19 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 05/05/2025 12:09:44 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; A Navy Vet; A_perfect_lady; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; ...
Pinging the APOD list

๐Ÿช ๐ŸŒŸ ๐ŸŒŒ ๐Ÿ”

4 posted on 05/05/2025 12:11:01 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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It’s just the madman across the water.


5 posted on 05/05/2025 12:57:37 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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Moon River, wider than a mile,

Iโ€™m crossing you in style, someday

6 posted on 05/05/2025 5:06:11 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! ๐Ÿ”ญ)
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