An eclipse from the Moon
We've been a bit obsessed with the Moon and the Sun over the past week here at Weird Science, but I thought this was still worth attention.
You're looking at the Earth moving in front of the Sun as seen from the Moon.
It was taken by the Japanese probe Kaguya as it orbited our own satellite.
The diamond ring effect you might recognise from solar eclipses as light peaks around lunar mountains and valleys.
But in this case it's the Earth's atmosphere that is lit up. And it's kinda spectacular.
For a video of the eclipse, visit here.
And I think we can now be certain that the world is, in fact, round. But it still could be flat, mind.
Weird Science Factoid: The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. You might have to tap your head a couple of times to get it to come on.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
