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May’s full moon, known by its popular nickname as the flower moon to signify the many blossoms of spring, will be bright in the sky on Sunday night — despite it being a “micromoon.” ...
“There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.” —Pink Floyd With my apologies to Roger Waters, who wrote those lyrics, there is a dark side of the moon. And ...
In a series of images taken by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on July 16, the so-called dark side of the moon is fully illuminated as the moon crosses between the camera and Earth.
NASA unexpectedly lost communication with Orion early Wednesday morning, but it was resolved 47 minutes later. Prior to going dark, the capsule beamed back close-up shots of the moon.
The images captured by the visible light camera aboard the Juno spacecraft, the JunoCam, reveal show the fractures, ridges, and bands that crisscross the moon’s surface in great detail.
May’s full moon, known by its popular nickname as the flower moon to signify the many blossoms of spring, will be bright in the sky on Sunday night — despite it being a “micromoon.” The ...
May’s full moon, known by its popular nickname as the flower moon to signify the many blossoms of spring, will be bright in the sky on Sunday night — despite it being a “micromoon.” ...