Just released by NASA this chart presenting the distances traveled by wheeled machines we send on the Moon and Mars. Have a look at the full version of the chart…
Photographer Phillip Calais who toke this impressive solar eclipse photo, said: It was just eight minutes after sunrise, last week, and already there were four things in front of the Sun. The largest and most notable was Earth’s Moon, obscuring a big chunk of the Sun’s lower limb as it moved across the solar disk, as viewed from Fremantle, Australia. Image © Phillip Calais. Used with permission.
Annular Eclipse in the morning of May 10. The shadow of the New Moon fell on planet Earth, crossing Queensland’s Cape York in northern Australia for the second time in six months. Image © Courtesy Cameron McCarty – MWV Observatory
This sharp image Saturn is captured emerging from behind the Moon, giving the illusion that it lies just beyond the Moon’s bright edge. Of course, the Moon is a mere 400 thousand kilometers away, compared to Saturn’s distance of 1.4 billion kilometers. Image © Jens Hackmann
Apollo F-1 engines, that boosted U.S. astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic by Jeff Bezos and his company Bezos Expeditions.
