13 June 2007

Picture of the Month - June 2007

Here's another interesting picture I found on the net. This picture is a fusion of two images. One is the visit of Apollo17 to our satellite and the other is a picture of the Earth. It is fused in such a manner that it looks like Earth is eclipsing the Sun or it is the Solar Eclipse observed in Moon. This picture tries to explain that eclipses not only occur in Earth but in any planets or satellites in our solar system. When Earth comes in between Sun and the Moon, solar eclipse can be observed on Moon whereas it would be a Lunar Eclipse on Earth.

Unlike the solar eclipse on Earth, when you observe the same event on Moon you would find that Earth completely blocks the sun. The Night Earth would be visible in this case as the reddened Moon (total lunar eclipse) reflects the light.

This picture simply tells us that this is how a Solar Eclipse would be viewed from Moon.

3 comments:

Kavin said...

is this pic real??? how did they go at the right time??? or they have set up a camera over there??? :o

Inchara Prakash said...

no no... Its not real... Its another fusion... But this is exactly how a solar eclipse looks like in Moon..

Inchara Prakash said...

Must have... The real one will be no different from this...