Credit & Copyright: Paul Schmit,
Gary Schmit
Explanation:
On February 18, as civil twilight began in northern New Mexico skies,
the International Space Station,
a waning crescent Moon, and
planet Mars for a moment shared
this
well-planned single field of view.
From the photographer's location the sky had just begun to grow light,
but the space station orbiting
400
kilometers above the Earth
was already bathed in the morning sunlight.
At 6:25am local time it took less than a second to
cross in front of the lunar disk moving right to left in
the composited successive frames.
At
the time, Mars itself
had already emerged from behind the Moon
following its much anticipated lunar occultation.
The yellowish glow of the Red Planet is still in the frame at the
upper right, beyond the Moon's dark edge.
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