The 11 day old gibbous moon.
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Stocktrek Images, Inc. / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
2BERNA7File size:
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5100 x 5279 px | 43.2 x 44.7 cm | 17 x 17.6 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
17 March 2019Photographer:
Alan Dyer/Stocktrek ImagesMore information:
A mosaic of the 11 day old gibbous moon, on March 17, 2019, showing the full disk and extent of incredible detail along the terminator, the dividing line between the day and night sides of the moon where the Sun is rising as seen from the surface of the moon. At bottom in the south, Tycho is brightening and its rays are now obvious splashing across the lower half of the moon. At lower left on the terminator is the elongated crater Schiller. The rim of another large crater, Schickard, is just beginning to catch the Sun. The most famous of the craters along the terminator at this phase in Artistarchus, one of the brightest spots on the moon. Below it, Marius is site to a complex of volcanic hills. The vast expanse of Oceanus Procellarum the Ocean of Storms, is coming into sunlight. Amid that ocean Copernicus and Kepler and their ray patterns are obvious. On the western shore of Imbrium the curving arc of Sinus Iridum is now better lit than a day before. To the eastern side of the moon craters are now lit by a high Sun and reveal their bright rays structures. A good example is Proclus.