Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2020 February 20
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                            Trifecta at Twilight
          Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]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 [5]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 [6]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. [7]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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References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2002/ISS_Moon_Mars_composite.jpg
   3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
   4. https://www.paulschmitphotography.com/
   5. https://www.facebook.com/pfschmit/posts/10112031917956861
   6. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
   7. https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-occults-mars-morning-of-february-18
   8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200219.html
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  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200221.html
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