Monday 21 October 2013

What Would It Look Like if the Moon was Much Closer?

moon-riseWe've shown some amazing moonrise timelapse images to you before, but nothing quite like this. The fictional video shows a scenario where the moon was actually orbiting around the earth at a much closer range than now, similar to the distance of the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS has a low orbit nearly 230 miles up, while the moon normally travels about 239,000 miles away from Earth.

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