Captured by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander on March 14, 2025.
I was told there would be a big prism and a rainbow, wtf
Turn around.
How is this possible? Both the earth and moon are the same distance away from the sun, give or take. On earth the moon looks about the same size as the sun, but since thw moon is smaller than the earth how does sunlight leak like that? Is the variance in distance between the earth and moon that large?
~~Edit: oh it's a solar eclipse still. Moon blocking sun to earth.~~
The atmosphere deflects light (which is why it doesn't get pitch black as soon as the sun sets) and creates this ring despite the Earth being about 4x the angular size than the Sun when viewed from the Moon.
I thought this was sun behind earth. Not sun behind camera looking at earth.
Yup, it's the sun behind Earth. The shadow of the Moon is quite small and often there is only partial shadow (except for total eclipses). Look at any eclipse path, it's really thin; if the Moon cast such a big shadow everyone would get a total eclipse often.
Edit: with a full eclipse, most of the hemisphere actually does experience a partial eclipse at some point (see latest US total eclipse. The Moon's shadow is basically a blurry circle, only 100% dark in a thin spot in the center if you're lucky.
Oh so I was right. The light is just visible because of what you said before. Thank you.
Did you mean to say a lunar eclipse?
A lunar eclipse here on Earth is a solar eclipse when viewed from the Moon. :)
You know what, that’s a really good point
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