What's wrong with this picture?
Here's the full text from the University's website, accompanying the single image:
Physicist Laszlo L Kiss last night captured these stunning images of the lunar eclipse.The eclipse began at 6.51, when the earth's shadow made its way slowly across the moon and reached a climax at 7.52, when the moon was entirely engulfed by the earth's shadow.
During the eclipse, the moon appeared to be red, as light from the earth's atmosphere passed through it.
Lunar eclipses occur twice a year when the moon partially disappears as the earth shadows it.
Sometimes, I despair.
Comments
Hate it when the full moon disappears.
It must have been all that UV bombardment from our light-emitting atmosphere (apparently red is reflected from the rocks, like on Mars, right?), but I get it - *we're* the cause for the surface of the moon being sterile! THAT's why there's no life there).
Soon there won't be any moon left at all!
Mr. Kiss must be writhing.
Posted by: Alethea | August 29, 2007 09:23 PM
It's a light-emitting atmosphere *and* a transparent moon!
Posted by: Nix | August 30, 2007 08:55 AM
So, there are now four pictures there, so the grammar in the first sentence is better. The last two paragraphs are still wrong, though.
Posted by: BK | August 31, 2007 11:37 AM
So why do we need the sun if we're emitting our own light?
And how likely is a blue moon *now*, I ask?
*answers on a postcard please... actually, don't bother. Thanks.
Posted by: Whiffling loonily | September 4, 2007 12:57 AM
haha! It's changed again!
"During the eclipse, the moon appeared to be red, an effect caused by light from the earth's atmosphere."
and still not quite there.
Posted by: BK | September 4, 2007 02:48 PM