Contrary to the famous myth, you cant see the Great Wall of China from the Moon ... even during a total solar eclipse. You could see the Moon eclipsing the Sun from the Great Wall. In fact, from this location near the Great Walls western end, the Moon completely blocked the Suns overwhelming disk revealing a shimmering solar corona and bright planets in the briefly darkened sky. A main pass, The Great Walls Jiayuguan Fort, is also silhouetted in the foreground. The pass is the western-most of the walls passes and the best preserved, initially built around 1372 during the Ming dynasty. The nearby city of Jiayuguan in Gansu Province was an important stop on the Silk Road.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:17:19 +0000
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