Video and photos .. The moon appears in rare and astonishing shots

Citizen – translated by: Omar Raafat

Astonishing images filmed by a Russian astronaut on the International Space Station showed the moon to appear to shrink and disappear, in a rare and hitherto undetected spectacle.

And according to the British newspaper Daily Mail, this astonishing cosmic phenomenon, known as the moon’s orbital sunset, was captured from space by Sergey Svereshkov, who shared the video on social media.

The moon appears differently

In the video, the moon begins to slowly contract until it takes on the shape of a pie and disappears into darkness, but what really happens is that the moon slowly disappears behind the horizon of the earth, and the distortions are caused by the blue atmosphere.

Sverchekov has been an astronaut with Roscosmos since 2010 and currently works for the International Space Station as an aeronautical engineer, he indicated that the video was shot at night, so the Earth’s horizon is not visible in the framework, and in 2014, Sverchekov participated in the European mission of the CAVS space agency and also participated in the Pangea program in November 2018.

The moon has a strange shape

This is not the first time the Moon has appeared distorted or oddly shaped when viewed from the space station – and is present in Earth’s atmosphere.

And NASA said it could happen because it is seen through the thick layer of Earth’s atmosphere, which acts like a lens, which leads to the bending of the moonlight at different angles, and when light moves through a regular medium such as the atmosphere. of a planet, it moves at constant speed in a straight line motion.