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A rare blue-banded Blood Moon captured in 2025!
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superad
Pepsi is not a planet!
Wait, is the moon ruzzian.
Always has been, comrade.
GOTTA CATCH EM ALL!
Really glad it's not the moon blue shifting
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250325.html
Explanation: What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last week's lunar eclipse, however -- taken from Norman, Oklahoma (USA) -- has been digitally processed to exaggerate the colors. The gray color on the upper right of the top lunar image is the Moon's natural color, directly illuminated by sunlight. The lower parts of the Moon on all three images are not directly lit by the Sun since it is being eclipsed -- it is in the Earth's shadow. It is faintly lit, though, by sunlight that has passed deep through Earth's atmosphere. This part of the Moon is red -- and called a blood Moon -- for the same reason that Earth's sunsets are red: because air scatters away more blue light than red. The unusual purple-blue band visible on the upper right of the top and middle images is different -- its color is augmented by sunlight that has passed high through Earth's atmosphere, where red light is better absorbed by ozone than blue.
Very cool, thanks for the info!
Well... are we going to release it back into the wild or what is happening to it now that it was captured? /j
Whoa, what's happening here? Is it something to do with the light shining through earth's atmosphere?
Early experiment for displaying ads on the moon’s surface
CHA
The Las Vegas sphere was just a test run
Finally. I'm tired of bending my head to the left, right, and down to see ads everywhere else.
Yup, the blue line is what’s left of the sunlight that has filtered through the ozone layer, which scatters red light apparently.
The red has gone through the lower atmosphere and scattered blue light, like an orange/red sunset.
But also this image was post processed with HDR to make it more visible.
Oddly Russian.
The sanest row in Roskosmos's budget.
when your health is fine but you need to wait for mana to refill
When you only suck on one side of the jawbreaker.
Poke ball moon
Pokemoon ball?
The moon is now belong to us 🇺🇸
Isn’t this 🇷🇺?
Damn you’re right
Guys, the cold war is over, time to stop.
Blow up the B-52s.
Not the planes, the band.
Wish we could have seen that with the naked eye, I can see this being an icon for an app or for a logo of some sort.
Flat earth confirmed.
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