March 22, 2020
The elements that make you — the calcium in your bones, the oxygen in your lungs — were scattered across space by dying stars long before...
Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano
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APOD published March 22, 2020 · Video still. Credit: El Cielo de Canarias. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
These people are not in danger. What is coming down from the left is just the Moon, far in the distance. Luna appears so large here because she is being photographed through a telescopic lens. What is moving is mostly the Earth, whose spin causes the Moon to slowly disappear behind Mount Teide, a volcano in the Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa. The people pictured are 16 kilometers away and many are facing the camera because they are watching the Sun rise behind the photographer. It is not a coincidence that a full moon rises just when the Sun sets because the Sun is always on the opposite side of the sky from a full moon. The featured video was made two years ago during the full Milk Moon. The video is not time-lapse -- this was really how fast the Moon was setting. Free Video Lectures: Introductory Astronomy
Image credit: El Cielo de Canarias