File:SMART-1 sees total lunar eclipse from space ESA240685.jpg
Original file (2,178 × 1,468 pixels, file size: 355 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]DescriptionSMART-1 sees total lunar eclipse from space ESA240685.jpg |
English: This photo-montage shows a series of images taken with the AMIE camera on board SMART-1 during the second lunar total eclipse the spacecraft witnessed from space.
This eclipse took place on 28 October 2004. At that time, SMART-1 was about 290 000 km away from Earth and at its farthest planned distance from the Moon of about 660 000 km. From its vantage point, SMART-1 could see and photograph, for the first time ever, both the Earth and Moon during a lunar eclipse. The images of the Moon are shown here in a temporal sequence, from left to right. They were taken with the AMIE camera, in visible light, between 1.14 UTC and 4.44 UTC. The ‘totality’ phase, in the middle of the sequence when the Moon is completely inside the Earth’s shadow, lasted about an hour from 2.23 UTC and 3.24 UTC. The images of the Earth shown here were taken just before and after the eclipse. The apparent relative size of the Earth and Moon, as shown in this picture, is exactly as seen by SMART-1. The relative distance between the two bodies, however, is not to scale. In fact, the Earth and Moon were farther apart than the field of view of AMIE and could not simultaneously fit within a single image. For this reason, a sequence of images was taken instead. In reality, the physical size of the Earth is about 3.7 times larger than that of the Moon; their diameters are about 12 800 km and 3500 km, respectively. As SMART-1 was farther away from the Moon than from Earth, the difference appears exaggerated. |
Date | |
Source | http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2004/11/SMART-1_sees_total_lunar_eclipse_from_space |
Author | European Space Agency |
Permission (Reusing this file) |
ESA/Space-X,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO |
Other versions |
|
Title InfoField | SMART-1 sees total lunar eclipse from space |
Mission InfoField | SMART-1 |
Activity InfoField | Space Science |
Licensing
[edit]- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 23:24, 24 May 2017 | 2,178 × 1,468 (355 KB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | European Space Agency, Id 240685, http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2004/11/SMART-1_sees_total_lunar_eclipse_from_space, User:Fæ/Project_list/ESA |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Image title |
|
---|---|
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 7.0 |
File change date and time | 14:42, 29 November 2004 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
IIM version | 2 |