that 1.9 trillion dollars
stimulus that lawmakers passed
last year. Caroline Brown, good
morning.
>> Good morning. So many of
us look up at the moon and this
Sunday, the moon is giving us a
special show. In total lunar
eclipse. Here to talk about why
this week is Moon is just so
special and the ongoing effort
to return Americans to the moon
is NASA expert Andrea Jones.
She’s a science communicator
for NASA. Good morning, Andrea.
>> Good morning. So can you
tell us what makes Sunday
night’s Moon just so special?
>> Well, this whole weekend,
we’ll have a beautiful, big,
bright, full moon. But on
Sunday, it will be extra
special because we’ll have a
total lunar eclipse. So the
sun, the earth and the moon
will wind up in space and
around 09:30PM, Central.
The moon will begin entering
the deepest part of the Earth’s shadow. So it’ll start looking
shadow. So it’ll start looking
like the moon has a bite taken
out of it. And around 10:30PM,
the moon will enter the darkest
part of Earth’s shadow and it will turn a brilliant copper e
will turn a brilliant copper e
bright red color. That will be
just a treat to look at.
>> So you said the moon is
going to be turning red during
the lunar eclipse. Can you tell
us why exactly it’s going to
turn that red shade.
>> Sure. So the moon turns red
during a lunar eclipse for I
know, cool reason. So when the
moon passes into Earth’s shadow
Earth blocks, most of the light
from the sun. But the sun that
does come through passes
through a huge stretch
of earth atmosphere. This means
that that the sunrises and
sunsets that you see with the
red light are what is projected
on to the lunar surface.
So that read that we see and
sunrise and sunset all of those
sunrise and sunset on earth are
being projected onto the moon
during a lunar eclipse. Turning
it a beautiful red color.
>> Oh, wow. That is so
fascinating. So we sent people
to the moon with the Apollo
program and now we’re going
back with the Artemis. What are
we doing right now to get
ready?
>> We’re doing a whole lot
sending people back to the moon
with Artemis is a big endeavor
and one mission I work with the
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
has been helping us get ready
for almost 13 years. Now.
So we’ve been mapping the moon
in great detail imaging its
surface tracking how
temperatures change on the
surface monitoring the
radiation environment and also
hazards. We want to avoid
resources we might want to make
use of and where we should send
our astronauts. So we’re
sending new scientific
instruments to the moon with
commercial partners were
getting ready to launch of
Artemis one, which will not
have any astronauts on it.
And then looking forward to
Artemis to sending people
around the moon. Before we get
back to the lunar surface with
our astronauts.
>> Wow. That is a lot going
on. So can you tell us how does
our moon help us better
understand other planets and
moons in our solar system?
>> Sure. So the moon’s surface
is nearly pristine. We do see
some changes going on. But most
of that history is
still present. So we can look
at the moon and see almost 4
and a half billion years of
solar system. History. We can
see what process ease happened
there and how that she the
lunar surface. And when we look
at Mercury or Venus or Pluto or
anywhere in between, we’re
really looking to the moon to
understand what we’re seeing
on those
other worlds.
>> Oh, wow. So final question.
Where can our viewers go to
learn more about the man?
>> Check out moon dot NASA dot
Gov for a lot of information
about when or science. And
we’re also going to have a link
there for a NASA science live
broadcast during
the eclipse.
>> Allow a thank you so much
for joining us this morning.
Andrea Jones. We really do
appreciate your time. So for
me, you for more on this lunar
eclipse. Let’s now listen in
to Anthony Yanez.
>> We have a really cool sight
in the sky Sunday night.
It’s the total lunar eclipse
or blood moon. It’s visible
over the entire United States.
First, here’s what’s happening.
I’m going to bring in the sun
and the Earth down to Earth as
it spins on its axis separates
day and night on Sunday night,
the full moon as it rotates
around our planet will enter
the Earth’s shadow. The outer
part of the shadows called the
penumbra here. The Earth is
partially blocking the sun’s
light. It’s in perfect
alignment now during a total
lunar eclipse or blood moon,
the sun Earth and moon
perfectly align here. The moon
enters the Earth’s umbra.
Umber is Latin for shadow in
the number of the moon. Turns a
blind runner Coppers orange
because that is the only color
of the atmosphere able to get
onto the surface. So if you
are on the surface of the moon
and look at our planet, you
would see every sunrise and
sunset at the same time.
Now during an eclipse. This is
the only call that gets
refracted onto the surface of
the moon. So here’s what you
need to know depending on
wildfires lot, Hank activity
that will change the color from
a reddish or orange color.
You do not need classes.
But here’s the time. This is
important. Sunday night, the
partial eclipse begins at 9.28,
that’s when it enters the pin
number. But the time to really
see it is during totality.
So the total eclipse begins at
10. 29, if you’re going to pick
one time to see it when it’s
going to be a deepest, the deep
red, the deepest red color you
have. That’s going to be a maximum class 11, 12. That’s
maximum class 11, 12. That’s
the time to see it. But
otherwise you have 85 minutes
to see the moon turned a
different color, red or orange.
And then the partial eclipse
ends at 12. 56 in the morning.
And I think this is the quintessential eclipse photo.
quintessential eclipse photo.
This is from Mike Ezell from
Ickes off graffiti he captured
in time-lapse the entire
partial eclipse. 2 total
eclipse, the blood moon all
the way out of the partial face. Of course you have the
face. Of course you have the
bluebonnets. This was taken