Roscosmos cosmonaut Dmitry Petelin showed in the video what the supermoon looks like from the International Space Station (ISS). Registered by the agency TASS.
The natural phenomenon can be observed on the night of July 4. The 25-second video shows the moon appearing in a cloud cover and gradually disappearing.
A supermoon is the full moon when the moon is closest to the earth. This year the full moon arrived at 14:41 Moscow time on July 3, and Earth’s natural satellite will be at the perigee of its orbit on July 5 at 01:29 Moscow time.
At the end of June, Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopiev and Dmitry Petelin spent more than six hours. afflicted in space, after completing the main task – to install a high-speed radio-technical information transmission system (RSPI-M) equipment on the Zvezda switch module. At the same time, they coped with their tasks ahead of schedule, despite the difficulties that arose in the process.
Check out the photo gallery to see how the supermoon happens in Russia in 2022 “Newspapers.ru”.
Paul Godfrey, former head of the UK Space Command suggestedthat in the coming decades, China may begin mining on the moon and asteroids.