Captured by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander on March 14, 2025.
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.
I was told there would be a big prism and a rainbow, wtf
A solar eclipse is when the Moon passes in front of the Sun. In contrast, a lunar eclipse is when the Sun passes in front of the Moon!
A lunar eclipse is when the earth passes between the sun and the moon.
Think what it would imply if the Sun passed between the Earth and the Moon. That’s the joke.
I think a solar eclipse is when anything passes in front of the sun, ie when the sun is eclipsed. We just don’t often see it from the moon
Indeed. It’s with respect to a viewer. Nothing is eclipsed in this image.
eclipse /ĭ-klĭps′/
noun
- The partial or complete obscuring, relative to a designated observer, of one celestial body by another.
- The period of time during which such an obscuration occurs.
The viewer is the Blue Ghost lunar lander’s camera here
TIL. Nature is amazing.
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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
