Naked eye occultation
No joy for me, will have to wait tell 2026.
Picture this: You're an astronaut driving a moon buggy across the dusty plains of Mare Crisium. It's nighttime, but not dark. There's a big bright gibbous Earth hanging low behind your back, and it lights up the moonscape, softly, as far as the eye can see. You turn off the headlights and hit the accelerator.
That's when it happens: From behind a nearby mountain, up pops Jupiter, brighter than any star in the sky. It winks in and out of the jagged ridgeline.
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