Caio GARCIA

Desenvolvedor full-stack

Olá! 👋 Sou desenvolvedor full-stack, com interesse em programação, DevOps, tecnologia e bancos de dados.

O céu de hoje

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Lua minguante

12% do disco iluminado

Nasce 03:44 · Se põe 14:37

Próxima lua cheia

29 de agosto de 2026

Próxima lua nova

14 de agosto de 2026

Planetas a olho nu esta noite

  • Vênus

    a Noroeste · melhor por volta das 18:15

    33° de altura

    magnitude -4.1

  • Saturno

    a Norte · melhor por volta das 05:45

    65° de altura

    magnitude 0.8

  • Marte

    a Nordeste · melhor por volta das 06:00

    25° de altura

    magnitude 1.3

Western Moon, Eastern Sea

Western Moon, Eastern Sea

ver na NASA ↗

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. Still, captured on July 7 during a period of favorable tilt, or libration of the lunar nearside, the Eastern Sea can be found at the upper right in this sharp telescopic view. In the image, the large lunar mare is extremely foreshortened and stretches along the Moon's western edge. Formed by the impact of an asteroid over 3 billion years ago and nearly 1000 kilometers across, the impact basin's concentric circular features are ripples in the lunar crust. But they are a little easier to spot in more direct images of the region taken from lunar orbit. So why is the Eastern Sea at the Moon's western edge? The Mare Orientale lunar feature was named before 1961. That's when the convention labeling east and west on lunar maps was reversed.

Foto astronômica do dia · NASA APOD · © The Mare Orientale