How perfectly moon fits between earth and the sun is one of the weirdest things about our solar system for me.
Especially because it hasn’t always and it won’t forever. Humanity’s existence just happens to coincide with the period of amazing eclipses.
You kidding?
There is loads of space between the Earth and the Sun to fit the Moon.
no way dude just look at it puff
That’s actually amazing that we have eclipse shots from Mars. Anyone know how it was taken? What instrument?
Probably a camera of some sort.
That would be my guess too. Perhaps aided by a kind of telescope.
Think about that though. I guess it’s no big deal to younger people since Mars has been reachable for their whole life, but the fact that we have robots on Mars taking pictures of a solar eclipse and sending it back to earth is just amazing to me! Mars was a huge mystery when I was a kid. Heck, my childhood was at the tail end of society wondering if there were martians living on Mars.
I mean she’s not wrong. Isn’t it, astronomically speaking, pretty rare that Earth has a moon that appears exactly the same relative size as its host star?
As far as we know it’s extremely rare and a bit of a mystery how it came to be that way. One theory is that it was the result of a collision with another protoplanet in the early formation of the solar system.
But it isn’t a mystery at all. The moon is moving away from us. For billions of years the moon’s apparent size was larger than the sun. For billions of years later it will appear smaller. It’s simply a lucky coincidence we live in this moment in time, in that regard.
The “mystery” I was referring to was how we came to have such a large moon to begin with. It’s very unusual, and moons on other terrestrial planets are much smaller and probably formed through completely different ways than earth’s moon.
That isn’t clear at all and I’m not even sure I agree, regardless. Hydrostatic equilibrium is a regularly occuring thing. No, I’m not looking up how regular. The Universe is mind-bogglingly enormous and everything is unusual. Have a good day.
Oh, holy hell, I just uncontrollably giggled at that for so long, my chest hurts. I sent it to my only group of friends, and it looks even better in smaller thumbnail form. Good gracious.
Toothless?
I think Mars eclipses might be better. It means they have googly eyes, and googly eyes make everything funnier.
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Only one
NUMBER ONE!
Idk looks good to me
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