Moon - Nearside Sun Deeply contrasting areas of light

Deeply contrasting areas of light and dark blend with a palette of colors mix to form rich swirls and fluid motions that would make even the best artists stand back and admire their work

humanity quite literally looks up to understand its place in the universe

the Earth's axis of rotation is not tilted toward or away from the Sun

taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys

While climbing the Red Planet's Mt

Moon - Nearside Sun Deeply contrasting areas of lightFor two weeks in mid December 2010, the LRO spacecraft remained nadir looking (straight down) so that the LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC) could acquire ~1300 images, allowing the LROC team to construct this spectacular mosaic. As the Moon rotated under LRO's orbit, the ground track progressed from east to west (right to left in this mosaic), and the incidence angle at the equator increased from 69 to 82 (at noontime the incidence angle is 0). NASA's