“Blood Moon” has caused an unprecedented boom in the Internet – Arbat City

October 9, 2014 19:22 Comments: 0 Print

« Blood Moon “has caused an unprecedented boom in the Internet. Through direct online broadcast, organized by the American space agency NASA, a total lunar eclipse, during which the natural satellite of the Earth turned red, everyone could watch.

Personally it is a rare cosmic phenomenon observed only residents of Australia, South-West Asia, and the Pacific coast. In Russia, the lunar eclipse in the sky just watched the Far East. In this video, “Blood Moon” in the Network were able to watch more than 12 million users.

As we know, such a rare astronomical phenomenon occurs when

the total lunar eclipse coincides with the sunrise or sunset – first satellite of the Earth comes into its shadow and then comes out of it. At this time, the moon can shine with colorful shades of red due to the fact that even during a total eclipse, it continues to be illuminated.

Note the bloody night light Color tone on 8 October. This is already the second total lunar eclipse this year and the second in the tetrad total lunar eclipses during the 2014-2015 period. The first eclipse of the moon occurred on 15 April.