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Supermoon rise from the ISS

Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Supermoon rise from the ISS
Image credit: ESA/NASA

Uploader comment: The supermoon on 5 May 2012, as seen by ESA astronaut André Kuipers onboard the ISS. The moon follows an elliptical orbit around Earth, and a supermoon occurs when a full or new moon (syzygy) appears at its closest orbit to Earth (perigree).


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