{"copyright":"Giorgia Hofer","date":"2025-04-03","explanation":"A 26 hour old Mo on poses behind the craggy outline of the Italian Dolomites in this twilight mou ntain and skyscape. The one second long exposure was captured near moonset on Ma rch 30. And while only a a sliver of its sunlit surface is visible, most of the Moon's disk can be seen by earthshine as light reflected from a bright planet Ea rth illuminates the lunar nearside. Also known as the Moon's ashen glow, a descr iption of earthshine in terms of sunlight reflected by Earth's oceans illuminati ng the Moon's dark surface was written over 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. Of course earthshine is just the most familiar example of planetshine, the faint illumination of the dark portion of a moon by light reflected from its planet." ,"hdurl":"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/2504\/GHR5997Luna1giornofirmapic c.jpg","media_type":"image","service_version":"v1","title":"The Da Vinci Glow"," url":"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/2504\/GHR5997Luna1giornofirmapicc102 4.jpg"}
