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First Solar Eclipse Recorded From Moon
dazza101 writes "For the first time ever, we have witnessed a solar eclipse from the moon. On 10 February 2009 Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter captured the sight of the Earth eclipsing the sun. The spacecraft also recorded this video showing the Earth surrounded by a glowing ring and briefly forming the classic diamond ring that often occurs during a solar eclipse, as seen from down here on Earth."
I can see it.
...if it actually were real.
It's even better than a solar eclipse as seen from earth because the earth's atmosphere diffracts light from the sun, causing a ring of light to appear around the planet. Very cool.
Why the hoax tag? There is no moon? Or have the tinfoil nutjobs awaken earlier today?
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The RIAA, on behalf of it's client Universal Media Studios, has issued a DMCA take down notice for the lunar orbiter's obvious infringement of the copyright of the opening credits to the television drama series Hereos.
FTFA: "A pudendal lunar eclipse is a phenomenon in which the Sun, Earth and Moon line up in tandem, hence the Moon is in the Earth's pudenda, or, when you look from the Moon, the Sun is partially covered by the Earth (partial eclipse.) During this phenomenon, the volume of sunlight to the Moon decreases, and the Moon's surface looks darker when you look at the Moon from the Earth. The KAGUYA, which circles around the Moon on its polar orbit, can witness this phenomenon only twice a year at most, thus it was very valuable to capture the moving images of the phenomenon from the KAGUYA."
Kono shashin wa JAXA to NHK goran no suponsaa no tei kyou de okurishimasu.
During a total solar eclipse (from the Earth's perspective), the ring of light around the moon is from the sun's photosphere showing around the edges of the moon.
The ring around the earth in the solar eclipse (from the Moon's perspective) is from the light refracting from the atmosphere. I'd think the Earth's relative size would be far too large for an effect like Baily's Beads to be seen from the moon.
Or am I missing something?
Get off my lawn.
IMHO video like that is all the justification we need for a space program. It would've better if there had been a someone there to see it with their eyes.
+1 fashionably cynical
You were just eaten by a Grue.
Also populated by space marines.
...who watched the video and suddenly expected the USS Enterprise to appear from the center of the light?
Apollo 12 went through a solar eclipse on the way back from the Moon, shortly after leaving Lunar Orbit.
"There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, its all dark. Its the sun that makes it light..."
Apollo 12 went through a solar eclipse on the way back from the Moon, shortly after leaving Lunar Orbit.
Yeah, and we almost had it on video too, until some moron opened the emergency exit door on the lunar studio and ruined the whole shoot...
This isn't a solar eclipse, this is a lunar eclipse.
That's what it's called when the earth blocks the sunlight hitting the moon, which is what happened here.
A solar eclipse is when the moon blocks the sunlight hitting the earth. (And would appear, from the moon, as a dark spot moving across the face of the earth.)
Viewing it from the other place doesn't change the name of it. The names are not relative, they're legacy names that don't mean anything. (Otherwise a solar eclipse would be called an 'earth eclipse' or something.)
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
Short answer: No, neither of those is correct. Long and poorly thought out answer: A typical full moon occurs once a month. When the moon is full, it is in a position that places the Earth between itself and the sun. The Earth is not directly between the Moon and Sun during a full moon obviously, because that would cause the Earth Eclipse of the Sun that we see in the video. But instead, it's orbit is offset by a given amount so that light travels past the Earth. Kinda hard to explain without a diagram, but if you could follow that then you'd see why the Earth's Eclipse of the Moon is not extremely common.
Oh wait, maybe that was dust on my monitor.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
until the orbiter gives us some videos of the Apollo 11 landing site, footprints and all?
The orbiter's on a polar orbit, right? So it should pass over it eventually.
Did anyone else think it looked like a bitmap drawing program from yesterdecade drawing a circle with dots?
First Solar Eclipse Recorded From Moon
But wasn't the first solar eclipse a really long time ago?
*rolls d20*
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FAIL.
This is amazingly cool footage. Hopefully they'll put the entire thing up.
I didn't think the house band in Hell would play this badly.
There are tons of high def pictures and video of these shots from NASA's blue marble project. The only slight difference is, the satellite isn't quite this far away, the photos however are way better.
Fansubbers often leave them in. Not the advertising block of course, but the ad from the sponsor, which usually consists of a single image, overlaid on which the names or logos of the sponsors, to a background of the theme music of the series, while a usually female voice says something along the lines of what OP said. Or so I'm told.
Here's a tip for future space tourism operators:
At some point in the permanent shadow behind the earth, you will see all the sunsets and sunrises on the planet at once, as a bright red ring. It should be an awesome sight, and is something no human has yet seen. The first travel operator who goes there will be able to charge a lot.
I don't know how far out you'd have to be. From the pictures it looks like the Moon is too close.
Since when was 480x270 "HDTV"?
I have a sudden urge to play Also sprach Zarathustra.
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
-kfg
Kring around the world...
HeeeeEEEEEeeeeeeEEEEeeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeee........
Surveyor 3 recorded a fuzzy image of an eclipse from the lunar surface in 1967.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/25feb_kaguyaeclipse.htm
That movie starts out just like my TRS-80 graphics plots using parametric trig functions. I thot they stole my homework assignment from 1983 and was getting ready to hire a lawyer. Then I saw the bright glow of the sun popping thru, and thot "Nope, TRS no do that".
Table-ized A.I.
Well, now we know what man is suppose to do on the moon... :)
EVEN BETTER ;P
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