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Credit & Copyright: NASA, Bill Ingalls
Explanation:
Faster than
a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive,
and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, this
Soyuz rocket stands on the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan on November 14.
Beyond it rises
a supermoon, but fame for exceptional
feats of speed, strength, and agility is not the
reason November's Full Moon was given this popular name.
Instead, whenever a Full Moon shines near perigee, the closest point in its
elliptical orbit around Earth,
it appears larger and brighter than other more distant Full Moons, and so
a supermoon is born.
In fact, November's supermoon was the second of three
consecutive supermoons in 2016.
It was also the closest and
most
superest Full Moon since 1948.
Meanwhile, the mild mannered Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch
its Expedition
50/51 crew to the International Space Station today, November 17.
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NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Soyuz - Moon
Publications with words: Soyuz - Moon
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