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by aldomottino » Thu Oct 22, 2015 4:01 pm
A super Moon means at the same time a super Earth (for ‘Selenites’). Also, the magnificent lunar eclipse of September 2015 meant at the same time a solar eclipse for ‘Selenites’.
Okay, forget the ‘Selenites’, but imagine we are orbiting the moon and suddenly… there it is, the unmistakable blue planet. The sun is behind the earth disk, very close to the east edge. Would the real scene look like this imaginary picture? The chronology of events, e.g. continent position while the event, angle of projection of the shadows on the moon, etc, are probably far from being real, but anyway, some (at least to me) interesting questions arise:
Would the planet disk look reddish due to moon light reflection?
Would the artificial lights on the American continents be visible?
What about the brightness and thickness of the halo around the earth?
And what about its color?
Credits: the earth image was taken from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration archives and properly modified. The Moon surface image was taken from ‘Kaguya’ lunar satellite archives (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and properly modified.
Copyright, assembly and processing: Aldo Mottino (Argentina).
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