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Keywords: clouds, Venus, Moon
![Заход Меркурия и полумесяца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/04/15/0001360656/EarthshineVsMercury_8168-netClaro1048.preview.jpg)
14.04.2016
Innermost planet Mercury and a thin crescent Moon are never found far from the Sun in planet Earth's skies. Taken near dusk on April 8, this colorful evening skyscape shows them both setting toward the western horizon just after the Sun.
![Тень Сервейора-1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/06/04/0001363781/surv1_lro_thumbcrop.preview.jpg)
3.06.2016
Fifty years ago, Surveyor 1 reached the Moon. Launched on May 30, 1966 and landed on June 2, 1966 with the Moon at full phase it became the first US spacecraft to make a soft landing on another world.
![Суперлуна и космическая станция](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/11/15/0001371704/ISStransit_Smith_960.preview.jpg)
13.11.2016
What are those specks in front of the Moon? They are silhouettes of the International Space Station (ISS). Using careful planning and split-second timing, a meticulous lunar photographer captured ten images of the ISS passing in front of last month's full moon.
![Союз против Суперлуны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/11/17/0001371787/nhq201611140001_900x1238.preview.jpg)
16.11.2016
Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, this Soyuz rocket stands on the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on November 14.
![Аполлон-17: стереофотография с лунной орбиты](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/01/17/0001600185/22466-22467anaVantuyne900.preview.jpg)
16.01.2020
Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this awesome 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.
![Полная Луна в перигее над Филадельфией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/11/18/0001371818/Supermoon_20161114_1024lodriguss.preview.jpg)
17.11.2016
A supermoon sets over the metropolis of Philadelphia in this twilight snapshot captured on November 14 at 6:21am Eastern Standard Time. Within hours of the Moon's exact full phase, that time does correspond to a lunar perigee or the closest point in the Moon's elliptical orbit around our fair planet.
![Лунный Икс](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/12/11/0001372449/Luna_20161206h17.40LT_Lunar-X_insetcrop.preview.jpg)
9.12.2016
The striking X appearing in this lunarscape is easily visible in binoculars or a small telescope. Yet, not too many have seen it. The catch is this lunar X is fleeting, only apparent in the hours before the Moon's first quarter phase.
![Кратеры и тени около лунного терминатора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/05/22/0001411371/TerminatorMoon_Zia_960.preview.jpg)
21.05.2018
Why does the right part of this image of the Moon stand out? Shadows. The terminator line -- the line between light and dark -- occurs in the featured image so that just over half the Moon's face is illuminated by sunlight.
![Луны и Юпитер](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/04/13/0001380138/GS_20170410_MoonJupiter_7435px1024.preview.jpg)
12.04.2017
On April 10, a Full Moon and Jupiter shared this telephoto field of view. Both were near opposition, opposite the Sun in Earth's night sky. Captured when a passing cloud bank dimmmed...
![Луна улыбается в пятницу](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/11/18/0001392750/20171117dawnTezel1200c.preview.jpg)
17.11.2017
Friday, an old Moon smiled for early morning risers. Its waning sunlit crescent is captured in this atmospheric scene from clear skies near Bursa, Turkey, planet Earth. In the subtle twilight hues nearby celestial lights are Jupiter (top) and Venus shining close to the eastern horizon.
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