Saturday, 3 January 2009

The celestial smiley : )

Hi Folks,
Many of you must have seen this on 01 December 2008. Such a perfect smiley face is a rare sight. Venus (the second brightest and smallest planet, 40 million kilometers away) is the left eye and the largest planet Jupiter (629 million kilometers away) is the right eye. The smiling mouth is the crescent Moon (384,403 km away). It is said that the next time Venus, Jupiter, and the moon will be as close and visible will be November 18, 2052.
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2 comments:

Tasneem said...

Wow!
Thnx 4 sharing.

Vimal Parmar said...

I forgot to mention... i took this pic in our colony with a small compact camera...