STUNNING lunar transit seen from space!


	STUNNING lunar transit seen from space!

Blors

3-3-2007 6:30 AM

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moon, lunar transit, sun, space, science, stereo

Blors says:

Make sure to visit the source where you can see the video!

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9-3-2007 5:35 AM

drocloce

Unbe-effing-lieveable.

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<B> Lunar Transit from STEREO </B> 
<B> Credit: </B>
<A href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/main/
index.html">STEREO Project</A>,
<A href="http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html">NASA</A>
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<B> Explanation: </B>
A million miles from planet Earth, last weekend the
<A href="http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.shtml">STEREO</A> B
spacecraft found itself in the <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050917.html">shadow</A>
of the Moon.
<A href="http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/where.shtml">So</A>,
looking toward the Sun, extreme ultraviolet cameras onboard
STEREO B were able to
<A href="http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/stereoimages/
preview/preview_transit.shtml">record a stunning movie</A>
of a lunar transit (aka <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070302.html">solar eclipse</A>),
as the Moon tracked across the solar disk.
Each frame of
<A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0703/transit_label_med4.mov">the movie</A>
is a false-color composite of images
made through
<A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061222.html">four</A> different filters that
highlight temperature regimes
and structures in the upper solar atmosphere.
In this frame, large bright active regions, seen as dark
sunspots in visible light, flank the Moon's
<A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040720.html">silhouetted</A> disk.
<A href="http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html">The Moon</A>
appears small, less than 1/4th the size seen from
Earth, because the spacecraft-Moon separation is
over four times the Earth-Moon distance.
<A href="http://skytonight.com/observing/home/
This_Weekends_Total_Lunar_Eclipse.html">Tonight, the Moon</A>
will find itself in planet
<A href="http://www.shadowandsubstance.com/">Earth's shadow</A>
in a total
<A href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/maaneclips2007/
leclips2007.html">lunar eclipse</A>.
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