Mauna Kea Shadow Play


	Mauna Kea Shadow Play

amgumen

3-16-2008 7:21 PM

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<B> Explanation: </B>
Just opposite the setting Sun, the already-eclipsed Moon rose
over the <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020427.html" linkindex="4" set="yes">Hawaiian Islands</A> on February 20.
A view near the 14,000 foot peak of volcanic
<A href="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanoes/maunakea/" linkindex="5">Mauna Kea</A>
on the Big Island, a
<A href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XPdTlHK1h_0" linkindex="6">popular spot</A>
for astronomers,
offered
<A href="http://www.vimeo.com/716247" linkindex="7">this remarkable play</A>
of shadows and sunlight.
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050704.html" linkindex="8">With snowy</A> cinder cones in the foreground, the Moon
lies within the
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031203.html" linkindex="9">shadow cast</A> by the mountain --
a shadow extending
across a lower cloud deck and on through Earth's dense atmosphere.
As <A href="http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/
gallery_20feb08_page4.htm" linkindex="10">the lunar eclipse</A>
is drawing to a close, the <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060909.html" linkindex="11">curved shadow</A>
of the limb of planet Earth itself can also be traced across the
Moon's surface, some 400,000 kilometers away.
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