Amazing video of moon transit of Earth!

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Amazing video of moon transit of Earth!

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The news on space.com

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0 ... -film.html

And the video..be patient, it will play an advert before it starts.

http://www.space.com/php/video/player.p ... on_transit
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Hmmm... the moon looks brownish...
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Hi,
Saw this one a few days ago... very interesting and nice.

Anyway, the clip actually contain 2 version of the transit: RGB version and IR version. The first part is the RGB version and the second part is the IR version.

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