Crescents
November 1st, 2006
I love stuff like this:
Click to see the whole image
From NASA, this photo struck me as interesting. I expected that it was a way zoomed-out photo of the moon, with some large, strange cloud formation mimicking its shape.
However, that large crescent in the photo is the moon. The small crescent is Venus, which can not only appear in the daytime sky, but even shows phases. Go ahead and click on it to see the full-sized image.
Wow, now THAT is cool.