Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Mooned


March 19 2011 Full Moon
The full moon of March was 221,565 miles (356,575 kilometers) on Saturday, March 19 just 50 minutes after it hit its full phase, making it the biggest and brightest full moon since 1993. The "supermoon" phenomenon occurred because the moon was in its full phase and just 50 minutes past perigee – the point of its orbit that brings it closer to Earth. (source: space.com)

Did you miss it? No problem. Taken mostly from Flickr photographers from all around the world, here are ten of the best supermoon photos we've seen.

3 comments:

I-RIGHT-I said...

Super Moons are really neato but I expected some kind of rollover. It's not to late you know.

Anonymous said...

How do they give away giving credit to "youtube" or "flicker"? I am sure each of those pictures was on someone's page. One of those pictures actually has a copyright stamp on it with the person's name.
Give the correct photo credit.

DougM said...

Whew!
For a minute there, I thought the Marvin vs Bugs thing finally happened @6:55.

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