Monday, September 27, 2010

Our Moon this morning

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About 83% of Full at 7:54am
Earth's only natural satellite

Moon Trivia:

NASA: "Because the moon has less mass than Earth, the force due to gravity at the lunar surface is only about 1/6 of that on Earth. Thus, a person standing on the moon would feel as if his or her weight had decreased by 5/6. And if that person dropped a rock, the rock would fall to the surface much more slowly than the same rock would fall to Earth."

The portion of the Moon that we see depends on where the Moon is in its orbit around Earth. It doesn't really lose its shape as it appears to have done in the above photo.

Now isn't this more fun than politics? NO?

3 comments:

Wes Blackman said...

Lynn - it seems that you like to moon your readers :)

Lynn Anderson said...

Oh, I thought it was you that did that, Wes. :)

ArĂȘte said...

LYNN - ANOTHER GORGEOUS STUNNING PICTURE! THANK YOU!!! And Mr. Blackman... see the beauty and be kind to those who do...