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Showing posts with label Picard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picard. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

A flower on the Moon

On this image taken by the SODISM instrument on board Cnes' satellite Picard on May 20th, a strange "Moon flower" seems, like the Little Prince's rose, to have grown on our natural satellite limb.

Group of sunspots looking like a flower growing on the Moon's limb. The image was rotated 90 degrees to create the effect. Credits: CNES/CNRS-LATMOS