# Remarkable images of Moon passing in front of Earth **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737 "2016-03-02T15:43:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/1 "2016-03-02T15:43:32Z")
[http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth](http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth) Just… wow. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/2 "2016-03-02T15:48:47Z")
They look so close together in these images. Shouldn’t be so hard to go there… ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/3 "2016-03-02T16:45:18Z")
Explain _that_, flat-earthers! ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/4 "2016-03-02T16:55:17Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Explain _that_, flat-earthers! NASA is part of the conspiracy, duh! I presume that satellite is parked at the L1 point, to be able to look down on Earth in permanent sunlight; I’d love to see a time lapse over weeks or months of the Earth rotating and the weather developing from that point of view. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/5 "2016-03-02T17:30:48Z")
The neat thing about that image is that it’s showing you the so-called _far side_ of the moon fully lit by sunlight. I’ve seen images of the far side since the Russians first sent one back, and I’ve seen globes and maps of the moon that depict it. But I can’t recall seeing a clear, fully sunlit photograph of the far side of the moon before. It’s very rarely shown in popular imagery. Here’s one: [https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;\_ylt=A0LEVygLI9dWVTEAMytXNyoA;\_ylu=X3oDMTE0djUyaTg2BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjE3NTdfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw--?p=far+side+of+the+moon+images&fr=yfp-t-201&fr2=piv-web#id=9&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fguardianlv.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F11%2FMoon.gif&action=click](https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEVygLI9dWVTEAMytXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0djUyaTg2BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjE3NTdfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw--?p=far+side+of+the+moon+images&fr=yfp-t-201&fr2=piv-web#id=9&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fguardianlv.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F11%2FMoon.gif&action=click) > **[Far side of the Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon)** > > The far side of the Moon is the lunar hemisphere that always faces away from Earth, opposite to the near side, because of synchronous rotation in the Moon's orbit. Compared to the near side, the far side's terrain is rugged, with a multitude of impact craters and relatively few flat and dark lunar maria ("seas"), giving it an appearance closer to other barren places in the Solar System such as Mercury and Callisto. It has one of the largest craters in the Solar System, the South Pole–Aitken bas... ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/6 "2016-03-02T18:40:15Z")
Cool. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/7 "2016-03-02T19:16:25Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Explain _that_, flat-earthers! [THIS LOOKS SHOPPED](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-looks-shopped). I CAN TELL FROM SOME OF THE PIXELS AND FROM SEEING QUITE A FEW SHOPS IN MY TIME. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/8 "2016-03-02T19:37:21Z")
My musical group recently changed genres. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/9 "2016-03-02T20:10:18Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > They look so close together in these images. Shouldn’t be so hard to go there… Sigh, you non-scientifical types really get under my skin. If you look closely you will plainly see that, when this happened, the moon was over the middle of the ocean. It then zooms off again. How you gonna stand in the middle of the ocean and grab it? You think a boat will help? Nu huh. Those white, swirly things all over the place are sea monsters. They would eat your boat. Really, one _should_ critically think these things through. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/10 "2016-03-02T21:08:56Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Sigh, you non-scientifical types really get under my skin. If you look closely you will plainly see that, when this happened, the moon was over the middle of the ocean. It then zooms off again. How you gonna stand in the middle of the ocean and grab it? You think a boat will help? Nu huh. Those white, swirly things all over the place are sea monsters. They would eat your boat. > > Really, one _should_ critically think these things through. Hey, I’m just asking questions here! ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/11 "2016-03-02T22:02:44Z")
I see. The “front” of the Earth has North America on it, so all of those black people have to use the back of the Earth. Racists. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/12 "2016-03-02T22:07:33Z")
Who is that parked in my driveway? (Less jokingly, it is cool to see the far side of the moon.) ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/13 "2016-03-02T23:16:30Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > They look so close together in these images. Shouldn’t be so hard to go there… The effect has been [noted before](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY6insZjCfU): > [@Spongmonkeys](#): > > We like the moon > coz it is close to us ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/14 "2016-03-02T23:39:05Z")
Notice you can see a fuzzy reflection of the sun at the Earth’s subsolar point? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/15 "2016-03-03T01:03:14Z")
A dramatic illustration that the Moon is actually not very shiny. We’re used to seeing it all on its own, most often against the backdrop of the dark night sky, and not in front of a shiny blue planet, so we think of it as this brilliant silvery-white object rather than the dark gray world it really is. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/16 "2016-03-03T03:17:47Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > A dramatic illustration that the Moon is actually not very shiny. We’re used to seeing it all on its own, most often against the backdrop of the dark night sky, and not in front of a shiny blue planet, so we think of it as this brilliant silvery-white object rather than the dark gray world it really is. I think that can give an idea of how magnificent a full Earth must look as seen from the Moon. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/17 "2016-03-03T04:02:17Z")
Absolutely. One of my favorite Apollo pics: [http://ep.yimg.com/ay/skyimage/apollo-11-earthrise-4-9.jpg](http://ep.yimg.com/ay/skyimage/apollo-11-earthrise-4-9.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/18 "2016-03-03T12:45:35Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Sigh, you non-scientifical types really get under my skin. If you look closely you will plainly see that, when this happened, the moon was over the middle of the ocean. It then zooms off again. How you gonna stand in the middle of the ocean and grab it? You think a boat will help? Nu huh. Those white, swirly things all over the place are sea monsters. They would eat your boat. > > Really, one _should_ critically think these things through. You row out into the middle of the ocean and at high tide you put up a ladder, climb up it and jump down on to the moon! **Italo Calvino** said so in _The Distance of the Moon_ in his [Cosmicomics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics) collection! Don’t recall sea monsters being mentioned at all. The [first link here](https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cosmicomics+calvino+text&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=PzHYVuXQCYq6UbjgkqgM) is the text as a pdf ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/19 "2016-03-03T12:48:21Z")
> [@Meurglys](#): > > You row out into the middle of the ocean and at high tide you put up a ladder, climb up it and jump down on to the moon! > **Italo Calvino** said so in _The Distance of the Moon_ in his [Cosmicomics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics) collection! Don’t recall sea monsters being mentioned at all. > The [first link here](https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cosmicomics+calvino+text&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=PzHYVuXQCYq6UbjgkqgM) is the text as a pdf Not to mention in Pixar’s _La Luna_ [https://search.yahoo.com/search;\_ylt=A0LEVwuPYNdWE14A.s9XNyoA;\_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3lmcC10LTIwMQRncHJpZANtUEVWQ1JEUFRqdUVCZEtjVF9CM3BBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMxMARvcmlnaW4Dc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAMxMARxdWVyeQNQaXhhciBMdW5hBHRfc3RtcAMxNDU3MDA5MjM3?p=Pixar+Luna&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=yfp-t-201&fp=1](https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0LEVwuPYNdWE14A.s9XNyoA;_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3lmcC10LTIwMQRncHJpZANtUEVWQ1JEUFRqdUVCZEtjVF9CM3BBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMxMARvcmlnaW4Dc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAMxMARxdWVyeQNQaXhhciBMdW5hBHRfc3RtcAMxNDU3MDA5MjM3?p=Pixar+Luna&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=yfp-t-201&fp=1) [https://search.yahoo.com/search;\_ylt=A0LEVwuPYNdWE14A.s9XNyoA;\_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3lmcC10LTIwMQRncHJpZANtUEVWQ1JEUFRqdUVCZEtjVF9CM3BBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMxMARvcmlnaW4Dc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAMxMARxdWVyeQNQaXhhciBMdW5hBHRfc3RtcAMxNDU3MDA5MjM3?p=Pixar+Luna&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=yfp-t-201&fp=1](https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0LEVwuPYNdWE14A.s9XNyoA;_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3lmcC10LTIwMQRncHJpZANtUEVWQ1JEUFRqdUVCZEtjVF9CM3BBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMxMARvcmlnaW4Dc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAMxMARxdWVyeQNQaXhhciBMdW5hBHRfc3RtcAMxNDU3MDA5MjM3?p=Pixar+Luna&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=yfp-t-201&fp=1) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737/20 "2016-03-03T14:30:04Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Not to mention in Pixar’s _La Luna_ > > [Pixar Luna - Yahoo Search Results](https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0LEVwuPYNdWE14A.s9XNyoA;_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3lmcC10LTIwMQRncHJpZANtUEVWQ1JEUFRqdUVCZEtjVF9CM3BBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMxMARvcmlnaW4Dc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAMxMARxdWVyeQNQaXhhciBMdW5hBHRfc3RtcAMxNDU3MDA5MjM3?p=Pixar+Luna&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=yfp-t-201&fp=1) > > [Pixar Luna - Yahoo Search Results](https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0LEVwuPYNdWE14A.s9XNyoA;_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3lmcC10LTIwMQRncHJpZANtUEVWQ1JEUFRqdUVCZEtjVF9CM3BBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMxMARvcmlnaW4Dc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAMxMARxdWVyeQNQaXhhciBMdW5hBHRfc3RtcAMxNDU3MDA5MjM3?p=Pixar+Luna&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=yfp-t-201&fp=1) Pixar? Pthhhbt! There has been no scientifically accurate Pixar movie since “Toy Story”. They’re afraid they may scare the kiddies. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remarkable-images-of-moon-passing-in-front-of-earth/747737.md?page=2)