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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Fishing for the Moon
NASA ^ | 23 Aug, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Bellelli

Posted on 08/23/2025 12:41:29 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: How big is planet Earth's Moon? Compared to other moons of the Solar System, it's number 5 on the largest to smallest ranked list, following Jupiter's moon Ganymede, Saturn's moon Titan, and Jovian moons Callisto and Io. Continuing the list, the Moon comes before Jupiter's Europa and Neptune's Triton. It's also larger than dwarf planets Pluto and Eris. With a diameter of 3,475 kilometers the Moon is about 1/4 the size of Earth though, and that does make it the largest moon when compared to the size of its parent Solar System planet. Of course in this serene, twilight sea and skyscape, August's rising Full Moon still appears small enough to be caught in the nets of an ancient fishing rig. The telephoto snapshot was taken along the Italian Costa dei Trabocchi, on the Adriatic Sea.


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

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1 posted on 08/23/2025 12:41:29 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 08/23/2025 12:41:59 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

🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔

3 posted on 08/23/2025 12:43:18 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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That’s Dispicable!


4 posted on 08/23/2025 12:43:45 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Amazing what they can farm in the ocean these days...


5 posted on 08/23/2025 12:45:40 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Adder
Moonfish:


6 posted on 08/23/2025 12:47:49 PM PDT by null and void (We are living through the greatest of all ICE Ages.)
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To: MtnClimber

Wow.


7 posted on 08/23/2025 12:59:34 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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I just wont say anything and lurk this thread...


8 posted on 08/23/2025 1:05:47 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: MtnClimber

Verry pretty. Peaceful….


9 posted on 08/23/2025 1:15:03 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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Does Uranus have a moon?..........Forget I asked.


10 posted on 08/23/2025 2:14:11 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with riminalNixon?)
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Does Uranus have a moon?..........Forget I asked

It most certainly does. It is called "JB Senile exotic 1", for some mysterious reason hangs around there. JB is short for Joe Biden.

11 posted on 08/23/2025 2:26:28 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: Colt1851Navy

Two moons- Hemorrhoid and Polyp…..they’re kinda hard to see. One needs the right kind of scope…..


12 posted on 08/23/2025 3:35:06 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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It looks like it is resting in a hammock.


13 posted on 08/23/2025 6:39:41 PM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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“Ah. RED SNAPPER!
Very Tasty!”
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Movie ‘UHF’


14 posted on 08/23/2025 6:53:18 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: sit-rep

Your Very sneaky.


15 posted on 08/23/2025 6:54:43 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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