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Keywords: clouds, Venus, Moon
![Лунная пыль и клейкая лента](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/05/30/0001741334/AS17-137-20979_1024.preview.jpg)
29.05.2021
Why is the Moon so dusty? On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating soil and sand. On the Moon, the history of constant micrometeorite bombardment has blasted away at the rocky surface creating a layer of powdery lunar soil or regolith.
!["Америка" и море Ясности](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/01/17/0001917754/22466-22467anaVantuyne900.preview.jpg)
17.01.2024
Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo view of another world. The scene was recorded by Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan on December 11, 1972, one orbit before descending to land on the Moon.
![Волнисто-бугристые облака над Новой Зеландией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/04/17/0001360771/asperatus_priester_1024.preview.jpg)
17.04.2016
What kind of clouds are these? Although their cause is presently unknown, such unusual atmospheric structures, as menacing as they might seem, do not appear to be harbingers of meteorological doom. Known informally...
![Венера и Юпитер над горизонтом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/11/26/0001550397/VenJup191124_jcc_1080.preview.jpg)
26.11.2019
What are those two bright objects on the horizon? Venus and Jupiter. The two brightest planets in the night sky passed very close together -- angularly -- just two days ago. In real space, they were...
![Юпитер и Венера с Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/06/0001884771/jupiterpersonvenus_nikodem_960.preview.jpg)
6.03.2023
It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on the planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them.
![Силуэт космической станции на фоне Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/12/06/0001791187/IssMoon_McCarthy_960.preview.jpg)
6.12.2021
What's that unusual spot on the Moon? It's the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit gibbous Moon last month.
![Восточное море на западе Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/01/28/0001807014/Mare_Orientale_Nov_27_2021_TGlenn_1024.preview.jpg)
28.01.2022
The Mare Orientale, Latin for Eastern Sea, is one of the most striking large scale lunar features. The youngest of the large lunar impact basins it's very difficult to see from an earthbound perspective.
![Восход Луны сквозь тень Мауна Кеа](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/03/10/0001461320/moonrisemk_connelley_960.preview.jpg)
10.03.2019
How can the Moon rise through a mountain? It cannot -- what was photographed here is a moonrise through the shadow of a large volcano. The volcano is Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, USA, a frequent spot for spectacular photographs since it is one of the premier observing locations on planet Earth.
![Восход да Винчи](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/09/26/0001498629/DaVinciRisingLikaiLin_1024.preview.jpg)
26.09.2019
An old Moon rose this morning, its waning sunlit crescent shining just above the eastern horizon before sunrise. But earthshine, light reflected from a bright planet Earth, lit the shadowed portion of the lunar disk and revealed most of a familiar lunar near side to early morning risers.
![Силуэт космической станции на фоне Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/04/02/0001464862/IssMoon_Holland_960.preview.jpg)
2.04.2019
What's that unusual spot on the Moon? It's the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit gibbous Moon last month. The featured image was taken from Palo Alto, California, USA with an exposure time of only 1/667 of a second.
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