Posted in Astronomy at 12:00 on 19 June 2024
A video from YouTube via Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2/6/24.
From Earth, the Moon, because it is tidally locked, seems stationary. This representation is assembled from photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and shows a full rotation of the Moon condensed into 24 seconds.
Posted in Astronomy, Music at 12:00 on 16 September 2018
Taken from You Tube via Astronomy Picture of the Day for 12/9/18.
All the ways the Moon moves in a year. Courtesy of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. For full explanation see the 12/9/18 link.
(The soundtrack they’ve used is Johann Strauss II’s An der schönen blauen Donau known in English as The Blue Danube, which of course brings to mind the docking sequence from the film of 2001: A Space Odyssey.)
