Jan 15 2010
Looking Farther: Kissed by the Sun
In the above Polaroid [thanks NASA!] we see a closer crescent-sliver of our Moon and a distant sliver of the planet Venus. In other words, the faces of these two bodies have a nose pointing toward the Sun. And those faces are kissed straight-on by light. But because our perspective is from slightly behind, we see merely a crescent ear. Or something.
