Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Moonlight and Our Atmosphere


The Moon's light is refracted by Earth's atmosphere, giving it a spheroid shape in this April 13, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited into a sunset 264 miles above the border between Bolivia and Brazil in South America. via NASA https://ift.tt/GaVvCwL
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