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Keywords: space shuttle, Moon, shadow
![Стерео Фобос](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/25/0001201284/Phobos_stereoME_c1.preview.jpg)
20.11.2004
Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to Phobos, grooved moon of Mars! Also featured in yesterday's episode, the image data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera and was recorded at a distance of about 200 kilometers.
![Взгляд на Ио с минимального расстояния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166628/ioupclose_galileo_big.preview.jpg)
7.06.2000
Above is the highest resolution photograph yet taken of the Solar System's strangest moon. The surface of Jupiter's moon Io is home to violent volcanoes that are so active they turn the entire moon inside out. The above photograph shows a region four kilometers across and resolves features only five meters across.
![Найден на Луне: возможно, самый старый образец земной горной породы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/02/03/0001724715/rock.preview.png)
3.02.2021
Was the oldest known rock on Earth found on the Moon? Quite possibly. The story opens with the Apollo 14 lunar mission. Lunar sample 14321, a large rock found in Cone crater by astronaut...
![Заход Земли с "Ориона"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/11/23/0001858344/earthset-snap01.preview.png)
23.11.2022
Eight billion people are about to disappear in this snapshot from space. Taken on November 21, the sixth day of the Artemis 1 mission, their home world is setting behind the Moon's bright edge as viewed by an external camera on the outbound Orion spacecraft.
![Лунный полумесяц](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/08/24/0001689205/HdrMoon_Claro_1080.preview.jpg)
24.08.2020
How come the crescent Moon doesn't look like this? For one reason, because your eyes can't simultaneously discern bright and dark regions like this. Called earthshine or the da Vinci glow...
![Пик Рюмкера в океане Бурь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/12/05/0001709822/MonsRumker_Letellier.preview.jpg)
5.12.2020
Mons Rumker, a 70 kilometer wide complex of volcanic domes, rises some 1100 meters above the vast, smooth lunar mare known as Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms. Daylight came to the area late last month.
![Кратеры Мессье на стереофотографии](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/12/11/0001711153/MessierCrater3d_vantuyne1024c.preview.jpg)
11.12.2020
Many bright nebulae and star clusters in planet Earth's sky are associated with the name of astronomer Charles Messier from his famous 18th century catalog. His name is also given to these two large and remarkable craters on the Moon.
![След возвращаемой капсулы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/12/31/0001716413/fireball_trail2.preview.jpg)
31.12.2020
Familiar stars of a northern winter's night shine in this night skyview, taken near Zhangye, Gansu, China and the border with Inner Mongolia. During the early hours of December 17 Orion is near...
![Полная Луна в синий час](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/08/26/0001756557/luna_antelao_Hofer1024.preview.jpg)
26.08.2021
Nature photographers and other fans of planet Earth always look forward to the blue hour. That's the transition in twilight, just before sunrise or after sunset, when the Sun is below the horizon but land and sky are still suffused with a beautiful blue light.
![Тень следа ракеты направлена к Луне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/06/24/0001417873/sts98plume_nasa_960.preview.jpg)
24.06.2018
Why would the shadow of a space shuttle launch plume point toward the Moon? In early 2001 during a launch of Atlantis, the Sun, Earth, Moon, and rocket were all properly aligned for this photogenic coincidence.
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