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The Moon may look smaller, but your same finger will cover it just the same. Wait a little while until the Moon moves higher into the sky and try the experiment again. Then close one eye and see which finger tip just barely covers the Moon – for me, it’s my pinkie finger. The habitat would be 3D printed directly on the Moon. Next time you see the Moon looking huge and closer than usual, hold out your hand with a straight arm. However, the European Space Agency (ESA) wants to do more than just go back, and has presented its plan to construct a Moon Village. It’s easy to test the Moon illusion, and you can do it yourself. It is hard to notice a 15% difference in size by just looking at the Moon alone in the sky. But when the Moon is closest to Earth, it is only about 12% to 15% closer than when it is farthest from Earth – too small a difference to explain the Moon illusion.
#ESA REPORT MOON VILLAGE FULL#
When the close part of the orbit coincides with a full moon, it’s called a supermoon. The orbit of the Moon makes it so that it is not always the same distance from Earth – as shown in the is exaggerated image – but the difference in distance is not enough to account for the Moon illusion. The Moon’s orbit is not perfectly circular – it’s more like an oval shape, called an ellipse – so the Moon does get nearer and farther away over the course of a month. This VR scenario shows ESA’s concept of a Moon Village, a science-fiction-like permanent base station that could actually be constructed sooner than you might have thought. Next is the idea that on some nights the Moon really is closer. After the success of Apollo 11 VR Experience and Apollo 17 VR Experience, we have created a brand new virtual adventure on the Moon, this time, for the European Space Agency. But it does not act like a magnifying glass. It’s true that all that air acts like a giant prism and bends the rays of light, distorting the color and shape of the Moon. When the Moon is near the horizon, its light has to travel though much more of the Earth’s atmosphere than when the Moon is directly overhead.
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Most are grounded in some truth, so they persist.įirst is the idea that the atmosphere acts like a lens and magnifies the Moon. THE 'MOON VILLAGE' CONCEPT AND INITIATIVE. There are several convincing-sounding but wrong explanations for the Moon illusion. This may be why big Moons become powerful memories of happy times. People often experience the Moon illusion on vacations when they go to wide-open spaces. Photographers use this trick to take spectacular images of distant objects with the Moon behind them. The two orange circles in the center of the gray circles are the same size, but they look different because of the different sizes of the circles surrounding them.