{"id":222531,"date":"2025-05-24T05:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=ea516ad563e4e87bd27545b829c11e81"},"modified":"2025-05-24T05:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:02:10","slug":"moon-and-flag-at-nasa-michoud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=222531","title":{"rendered":"Moon and Flag at NASA Michoud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"The American flag is directly in the foreground; it cannot be seen in its entirety. The white stars on blue and the red and white stripes are out of focus. A small sliver of the blue morning sky can be seen at top right. The waning gibbous moon (nearly full) is visible.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg 2701w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg?resize=1024,682 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/maf-20250319-flagmoonorig.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Michael DeMocker<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just after sunrise, the waning gibbous moon sets just behind a waving United States flag on March 19, 2025, in this image from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/michoud-assembly-facility\/\">NASA\u2019s Michoud Assembly Facility<\/a> in New Orleans. The waning gibbous moon phase comes after the full moon. As the Moon begins its journey back toward the Sun, the opposite side of the Moon now reflects the Moon\u2019s light. The lighted side appears to shrink, but the Moon\u2019s orbit is simply carrying it out of view from our perspective. The Moon also rises later and later each night.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Michael DeMocker<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after sunrise, the waning gibbous moon sets just behind a waving United States flag on March 19, 2025, in this image from NASA\u2019s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The waning gibbous moon phase comes after the full moon. As the Moon begins its journey back toward the Sun, the opposite side of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15596,16843],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earths-moon","category-michoud-assembly-facility"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225032,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222531\/revisions\/225032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}