Sun and moon combo: I finally got some OK skies overnight last night and few enough clouds to shoot through during the day today to get another moon/sun combo. These images were captured a little over 9 hours apart.
Why don't we ever see the far side of the moon? From Earth, it appears as if the moon doesn't rotate at all, but it does spin on its axis, just like Earth does. However, the moon is tidally locked to our planet. That means it takes just as long for the moon to rotate about its axis as it does to orbit Earth — roughly one month.
This is definitely an interesting read about the moon getting its own time zone.
It actually makes perfect sense in so many ways. I really hope since the moon time zone won't honor DST(Daylight Savings Time) that this helps us here on Earth get rid of it as well and not honor it going forward.
Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt made these images using raw data from the JunoCam instrument, applying processing techniques to enhance the clarity of the images.
Image credit:
Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Image processing by Gerald Eichstädt
Voici une p'tite aquarelle que j'ai nommée "Au clair des lunes", et qui représentent mes deux personnages principaux, Nagarios et Maane, en train de regarder le clair des lunes. Bon visionnage ! 🌙
The first train will be built on the moon, its real? (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Humans are projected to stay for a long period of time on the surface of the Moon.