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Ummm, I find it hard to understand from what position and what angle a picture would be made that shows the moon that large in the background of a picture of the Int. space station, which is in orbit around the earth.
Maybe I haven’t seen enough space pictures. Any other comments?
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 2/3/2013 @ 11:49 amMagnification. From Earth the ISS looks like a bright star. I don’t know if they were two different images merged, but if you magnified the ISS to see the details as in the image above, the full moon would be huge indeed.
Simon Jester (07b568) — 2/3/2013 @ 12:43 pmno cow jumps over
Colonel Haiku (f1519c) — 2/3/2013 @ 1:13 pmadd insult to injury
no green cheese either
Here is the explanation at Slate. I have not double checked it and cannot vouch for it.
Have at it.
Patterico (0ccd7a) — 2/3/2013 @ 1:53 pmThanks, P, for the info.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 2/3/2013 @ 2:03 pmMakes sense, the picture was taken relatively far away from the station at significant magnification as Simon said. (I assume from another satellite or previous shuttle run, above the atmosphere).
Years ago, during my first marriage, I told my wife that the paper said we would be able to see the space shuttle moving across the night sky at a particular time. So we went outside, and I nattered on, pontificating on how it might be dim, hard to see, etc.
“Um,” said my non-science geek wife, “like that?” She pointed at a star brighter than Venus, moving across near zenith.
“Yes,” I replied shortly. I rubbed her feet for an hour that night in recompense.
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 2/3/2013 @ 2:09 pmThis is a lie.
There is actually a giant 100km long alien battle station orbiting the moon. After someone noticed it they came up with this cover story.
The Truth is Out There!
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 2/3/2013 @ 3:01 pmUmm… that photo is a year old…
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/gallery/jsc2012e017827.html
“JSC2012-E-017827 (4 Jan. 2012) — The International Space Station can be seen as a small object in upper left of this image of the moon in the early evening Jan. 4 in the skies over the Houston area flying at an altitude of 390.8 kilometers (242.8 miles).”
Still cool, though.
Rusty Bill (e3b0ca) — 2/3/2013 @ 6:29 pmLooks like a Tie fighter to me.
Jcw46 (eda37d) — 2/3/2013 @ 8:48 pmYup. Per the Slate article I linked in the comments.
As you say: still cool.
Patterico (9c670f) — 2/3/2013 @ 11:47 pmMath Is Hard!
redc1c4 (403dff) — 2/3/2013 @ 11:49 pmmoons rock
happyfeet (ce327d) — 2/4/2013 @ 7:14 amGreetings:
A moon is a terrible thing to waste.
11B40 (68599a) — 2/4/2013 @ 5:54 pm