Comments on: Amazing moonset video taken from space!

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:27:20 +0000

The light actually bends down, thereby raising the angle at which we have to look to see parts of the moon.

By: ASFalcon13

ASFalcon13 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:29:11 +0000

No disrespect intended to the ISS astros, but a team I work with shot a way cooler Moon video a couple of weeks ago

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20120201.html

By: lepton

lepton — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:21:15 +0000

Shouldn’t it be the light from the bottom of the moon bend DOWNWARD to reach ISS, so it appears higher?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:13:52 +0000

same basic idea as sunset, sun image becomes distorted plus solar rays pass through a thicker layer of atmosphere, so nightime cools; plus it is cooler in the low-sun (winter) season in mid latitudes for similar reason (although another reason of course is that the sunlight is spread over a larger area in the low sun phase)

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By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:51:02 +0000

Also note how the moon appears to rotate counter-clockwise. This is an illusion, it’s simply angle of the horizon that changes as the ISS move along the curvature of the Earth.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:35:14 +0000

@ ^ Pete Jackson : OTOH, it takes a *lot* of pumping up to inflate again!

Another Moon illusion effect. Beautiful and interesting clip.

Except, that’s a really fast ten minutes – talk about time going too quickly!

I’d like to see a slowed version – even a real time one – of that too.

By: Pete Jackson

Pete Jackson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:57:09 +0000

The Moon looks squashed because it deflates after it sets. There’s no use keeping the Moon inflated when you can’t see it…

By: Neil NZ

Neil NZ — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:46:33 +0000

Very cool indeed!