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Moon Shadow Seen By A Cubesat

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 6, 2013
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AeroCube-4 Captures Images of the Moon’s Shadow
“One of Aerospace’s CubeSats captured a photo of the moon’s shadow on Earth’s surface during the solar eclipse that occurred on Nov. 3. This solar eclipse began at 11 a.m. UTC and lasted for about two hours, with the shadow of the moon tracing a thin path that began in the Atlantic near Bermuda, crossed the ocean in a southeasterly direction, and ended over central Africa.”

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2 responses to “Moon Shadow Seen By A Cubesat”

  1. Vladislaw says:
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    Keith, off topic but did you catch this .. from Newt Gingrich:

    ““This is a good example of what’s wrong with the current political system,” Gingrich said. “I gave a serious speech in Florida at the Space Coast outlining a very bold strategy. … I got savaged by two of my competitors, Romney and Santorum, who deliberately distorted the speech. I got ridiculed by ‘Saturday Night Live.’”

    Gingrich, who now hosts a show on CNN, writes in his newest book “Breakout” that Washington is a city full of “prison guards of the past,” who are slowing the pace of innovation in fields like space exploration.

    He specifically calls for redirecting government funding from NASA to the private sector, where he believes projects can be more efficiently funded and implemented.

    “The one period of glory in NASA was the first nine years when they weren’t a bureaucracy yet … and they haven’t gotten back to that excitement, that adventurism, and won’t,” he said. “So, I would take most of the NASA budget, and I would turn it into prizes for private sector.”

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs

  2. hikingmike says:
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    “But flying at 44,000 feet, intrepid eclipse chasers on
    a chartered jet traveling 500 miles per hour managed to intercept the
    the Moon’s shadow.”

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/a