Moon Enhanced !
Our Moon doesn't really look like this. Earth's Moon, Luna, doesn't naturally show this rich texture, and its colors are more subtle. But this digital creation is based on reality.
The featured image is a composite of multiple images and enhanced to bring up real surface features. The enhancements, for example, show more clearly craters that illustrate the tremendous bombardment our Moon has been through during its 4.6-billion-year history. The dark areas, called maria, have fewer craters and were once seas of molten lava.
Additionally, the image colors, although based on the moon's real composition, are changed and exaggerated. Here, a blue hue indicates a region that is iron rich, while orange indicates a slight excess of aluminum.
Although the Moon has shown the same side to the Earth for billions of years, modern technology is allowing humanity to learn much more about it -- and how it affects the Earth.
Image Credit & Copyright: Darya Kawa Mirza,
Words: Nasa
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A pesar de orbitar cerca del mismo planeta, jamás podremos estar juntos, a pesar de estar en el mismo sistema planetario, jamás estaremos cerca, somos tan cercanos y al mismo tiempo tan lejanos, aunque yo quiera cambiar de órbita por ti, jamás me lo permitirás, porque tú eres la estrella y yo un planeta.
-Astronomía-
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La luna me enseñó que también hay belleza en la oscuridad, que incluso cuando no me siento completa, soy suficiente.
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La Luna capturada hace 54 años. Es una foto del piloto del módulo de mando del Apolo 12 Richard F. Gordon. 1969.
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fresh ice on Mars dunes.
photo from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, from NASA
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The color pink in the Universe
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Annular Eclipse 2023 - Midland, Texas
Credit: Jerry Hatfield
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Carbon dioxide ice was just found on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, here is what that could mean.
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La prima costellazione
Tiro fuori la macchina dal garage, Tigrotto guarda il cielo stellato e mi dice: «La cintura di Orione! Papà guarda le tre stelle in fila!» e grida tutto contento.
Alzo gli occhi al cielo e stupito osservo la costellazione che lui indica tutto contento.
È la costellazione di Orione, effettivamente e lui l’ha riconosciuta.
«Papà è la mia prima costellazione!»
«Sì è vero, è la tua prima costellazione la prima che hai riconosciuto».
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•Sunset • Minas Gerais • Brasil •
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