Tuesday, June 19, 2012

What is Night?

Thanks to Ted Chiang, I now know "night for what it [is]: the shadow of the Earth itelf, cast against the sky." Why didn't I ever think to put it like that?         

Came across the great picture from 1992 (Galileo spacecraft on its way to Jupiter snapped this on its way out) so you can not only see the Earth's shadow but the Moon's as well and the orientation between the two that give us the "Phases" of the Moon:


I think it's a gibbous moon, but is it waxing or waning? I want to say waxing (getting bigger) but without knowing the Galileo spacecraft's trajectory I'm not sure...

1 comment:

  1. hey mr rideout out, this is eli. so my family is visiting france this summer and we were stopping in Lyon to do some wine related stuff but we didn't know what, and then I remember that you are connected to some winery near there, right? so, can do you still do anything there? how do i see it?

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