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.
Image & info via APOD
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