On January 21, 2019, the astronomical spectacle of the "Super Wolf Blood Moon", which is rare in a century (appearing an average of 28 times in a century), is being expected by the industry and the media. NASA expects the eclipse to reach its highest point in the Western Hemisphere at around 5:13 a.m. BRITISH TIME, which can be seen throughout the United States.
Blood Moon
"Super Wolf Blood Moon" – it seems to be a noun full of adjectives. However, in fact, each of its "descriptions" has a specific academic meaning. "Super" refers to the moon at this moment when it is in orbit closest to the Earth, so it appears to be a much larger moon than usual (generally 14% larger than average, 30% brighter); "wolf" refers to the full moon, that is, the full moon that triggers the "werewolf transformation" in Western folklore; "blood" refers to the near-Earth moon in the total lunar eclipse that gets the red light reflected by the edge of the Earth's atmosphere.
In the West, the blood moon is a sign of some great change or catastrophe in biblical prophecies, and fragments of the Old and New Testaments and even the Day of Judgment appear in the bible that are related to the blood month. Western literary circles have also published a series of apocalyptic books on this phenomenon.
Compared with the West, the moon in our culture looks much more cute. In the moon there is Wu Gang, there is Chang'e, and there is a jade rabbit that pounds medicine. In reality, China's Chang'e 4 just landed on the far side of the moon as the first initiative of mankind on January 3, 2019 New Year, and the first time a photo - a peaceful landform map on the back of the moon - attracted global attention. Not only that, at a press conference on Monday, Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration and deputy commander of the lunar exploration project, said that during the Chang'e-4 mission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) proposed that it hoped to use the US lunar reconnaissance orbiter (LRO) to observe the lunar dust during the landing of Chang'e-4 for related research. So the center announced to NASA the landing time and specific coordinates of Chang'e-4, and the United States shared satellite data. This is also the first time that the two sides have publicly cooperated since the US Congress passed a law banning cooperation with China in the space field in 2011.
Chang'e-4 landed on the far side of the moon
Today, the latest news came that Chang'e 4 completed the first biological experiment conducted by humans on the lunar surface. Judging from the photos transmitted back, on the biological science test instrument carried by Chang'e-4, cotton seeds have grown young shoots, and if there is no accident, cotton seeds will continue to grow and are expected to become the first green leaves on the moon. With the success of this lunar surface biological experiment, Chang'e-4 will carry out various other space experiments in the future. More exploration is waiting for our Chang'e-4, and more surprises are bound to be reported to us on Earth at some point in the future.
Cotton on the moon has sprouted
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