Wow, that's beautiful! ![:D]( "Very Happy")
I remember seeing something similar, minus the palm trees and the ocean, when a brilliant full Moon was setting seemingly inside a bluish cloud bank below a lovely pink dawn sky. But the Moon shone right through the cloud bank as if the clouds were not there - and they weren't. I knew enough astronomy to know that the blue "clouds" were the sinking shadow of the Earth. Because when dawn breaks, the Earth shadow sinks. And at sunset, when it's getting dark, the shadow engulfs us.
I think the Lady in the Moon is upside down, so this APOD must have been taken at southerly latitudes ( and it was).
Ann
I remember seeing something similar, minus the palm trees and the ocean, when a brilliant full Moon was setting seemingly inside a bluish cloud bank below a lovely pink dawn sky. But the Moon shone right through the cloud bank as if the clouds were not there - and they weren't. I knew enough astronomy to know that the blue "clouds" were the sinking shadow of the Earth. Because when dawn breaks, the Earth shadow sinks. And at sunset, when it's getting dark, the shadow engulfs us.
I think the Lady in the Moon is upside down, so this APOD must have been taken at southerly latitudes ( and it was).
The Lady in the Moon is upside down!
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