Robby
03-01-2008, 12:45 PM
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0803/MKeclipse_mukensnable_c800.jpg (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0803/MKeclipse_mukensnable.jpg)
Mauna Kea Shadow Play
Credit & Copyright (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply): Alex Mukensnable (http://www.vimeo.com/716247)
Explanation: Just opposite the setting Sun, the already-eclipsed Moon rose over the Hawaiian Islands (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020427.html) on February 20. A view near the 14,000 foot peak of volcanic Mauna Kea (http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanoes/maunakea/) on the Big Island, a popular spot (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XPdTlHK1h_0) for astronomers, offered this remarkable play (http://www.vimeo.com/716247) of shadows and sunlight. With snowy (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050704.html) cinder cones in the foreground, the Moon lies within the shadow cast (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031203.html) by the mountain -- a shadow extending across a lower cloud deck and on through Earth's dense atmosphere. As the lunar eclipse (http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/ gallery_20feb08_page4.htm) is drawing to a close, the curved shadow (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060909.html) of the limb of planet Earth itself can also be traced across the Moon's surface, some 400,000 kilometers away.
(Via NASA (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080301.html))
Mauna Kea Shadow Play
Credit & Copyright (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply): Alex Mukensnable (http://www.vimeo.com/716247)
Explanation: Just opposite the setting Sun, the already-eclipsed Moon rose over the Hawaiian Islands (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020427.html) on February 20. A view near the 14,000 foot peak of volcanic Mauna Kea (http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanoes/maunakea/) on the Big Island, a popular spot (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XPdTlHK1h_0) for astronomers, offered this remarkable play (http://www.vimeo.com/716247) of shadows and sunlight. With snowy (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050704.html) cinder cones in the foreground, the Moon lies within the shadow cast (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031203.html) by the mountain -- a shadow extending across a lower cloud deck and on through Earth's dense atmosphere. As the lunar eclipse (http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/ gallery_20feb08_page4.htm) is drawing to a close, the curved shadow (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060909.html) of the limb of planet Earth itself can also be traced across the Moon's surface, some 400,000 kilometers away.
(Via NASA (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080301.html))