July 16, 2024

Over the Rainbow

Originally published March 30, 2014
image by Howard Eskildsen, Ocala, Florida

While looking at the Moon last month I saw this hovering arc of Montes Jura, the northern rim of Sinus Iridum (Bay of Rainbows), I thought: Wow that really looks like a rainbow. Could this view have inspired the early lunar observer who gave the Bay of Rainbows its name? And why not, they both hover over Mare Imbrium, the "Sea of Showers."

Howard Eskildsen

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