• Modva@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      And for them to both be eclipsing at the same time, crazy odds… or, dare I say it, astronomical

  • scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    What’s up with that wonky form? Is Phobos not a sphere? Has it let itself go since his wife left? Is it a “special” moon?

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    Nah, our moon is exceptionally dull. Here we are, the only dot in the sunbeam that’s not black or white, and our sole natural satellite is flat, dark, and powder-gray. Like worn asphalt.

    And it’s tide-locked! We don’t even get to see all of it. Like if Mars’s twin enormous boulders always looked like cardboard cut-outs instead of tumbling majestically over the years. Thank goodness for all this water and life and crap, or we’d be a C-tier heavenly body.

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      The fact that our moon is almost identical in size compared to our sun from our perspective is something exceptional in heavenly bodies! Give it some merit!

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      Our moon is actually pretty big compared to the planet’s size. It’s rather rare actually