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ISS Transiting Moon over the Apollo 11 landing site! [Amazing video]

International Space Station (ISS) transiting moon over the Apollo 11 landing site (featured)
International Space Station (ISS) transiting moon over the Apollo 11 landing site. This composite image is created by astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy. His website: Cosmic Background

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy published on his Twitter account an amazing video of the International Space Station (ISS) transiting the Moon, over the landing site of Apollo 11, the first moon landing mission. Such an incredible amount of human achievement is represented in just one short video!

On January 19, 2022, McCarthy wrote on Twitter that: “Stayed up till the wee hours of the morning last night to capture the ISS transiting the Apollo 11 landing site. The pinnacle of human engineering and the pinnacle of human exploration in one spot.”

Video: the International Space Station (ISS) transiting the moon over the Apollo 11 landing site.

McCarthy also published another version of the video above, this time encircling the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon’s surface (encircled red, you may need to see it fullscreen to be able to notice it).

This time I circled the Apollo landing site for you. Also, be aware that this video is slowed down- the ISS actually moves about 6x faster

The videos above were slowed down. The ISS actually moves about 6x faster:

McCarthy wrote: “Here it is in roughly real-time. In order to capture the station precisely over the landing site, I had to have my camera running at over 150fps. The ISS covered the entire moon in a half-second, so you can see how quickly it was in this narrow frame.”
International Space Station (ISS) transiting moon over the Apollo 11 landing site
International Space Station (ISS) transiting moon over the Apollo 11 landing site. This composite image is created by astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy. His website: Cosmic Background
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