2008 March 1
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Mauna Kea Shadow Play
Credit & Copyright: Alex Mukensnable

2월 20일 하와이 마우나 키아 14000피트 정상에서 바라다 본 월식의 달 모습. 발 아래 구름 위로 마우나키아산의 그림자가 마치 또 다른 산이 앞을 가로막은 듯이 보입니다.  그 그림자 속에 이미 월식이 진행된 달이 떠 있습니다.

Explanation:
Just opposite the setting Sun, the already-eclipsed Moon rose over the Hawaiian Islands on February 20. A view near the 14,000 foot peak of volcanic Mauna Kea on the Big Island, a popular spot for astronomers, offered this remarkable play of shadows and sunlight. With snowy cinder cones in the foreground, the Moon lies within the shadow cast by the mountain -- a shadow extending across a lower cloud deck and on through Earth's dense atmosphere. As the lunar eclipse is drawing to a close, the curved shadow of the limb of planet Earth itself can also be traced across the Moon's surface, some 400,000 kilometers away.