Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                              2020 September 5
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                               A Falcon 9 Moon
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Katie Darby

   Explanation: Illuminating planet Earth's night, full moons can have
   many names. This year the last full moon of northern hemisphere summer
   was on September 2, known to some as the [5]Full Corn Moon. A few days
   earlier on August 30 this almost full moon rose just before sunset
   though, shining through cloudy skies over Cape Canaveral Air Force
   Station on Florida's [6]Space Coast. A well-timed snapshot [7]caught
   the glare of rocket engines firing below the lunar disk, a Falcon 9
   rocket's first stage successfully [8]returning to Cape Canaveral's
   landing zone 1. About 9 minutes earlier, the same SpaceX Falcon 9
   rocket [9]had launched the SAOCOM 1B satellite toward polar orbit. The
   fourth launch for this reusable Falcon 9 first stage, it was the first
   launch to a [10]polar orbit from Cape Canaveral since 1969.

                   Tomorrow's picture: a cosmic crustacean
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References

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   4. https://www.flickr.com/photos/katiedarby/
   5. https://earthsky.org/tonight/full-corn-moon-on-september-1-2
   6. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200731.html
   7. https://www.flickr.com/photos/katiedarby/50296297741/
   8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/200312.html
   9. https://www.space.com/spacex-saocom-1b-launch-rocket-landing-success.html
  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Polar_orbit.ogv
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