Where’s the moon? Waning crescent
Tom Boz in North Wildwood, New Jersey, caught the waning crescent moon of March 14. New moon is March 17. If you see the moon before dawn before then, it’ll be a very slender crescent.
Sun pillar at Vancouver Island
Sun pillars happen when sunlight reflects from plate-like ice crystals, drifting through Earth’s atmosphere with a horizontal orientation, gently rocking from side to side as they fall. Photo taken March 12 by Wally Roth, near Lantzville, British Columbia.
Sunday night’s moon, Venus, Mercury
Moon, Venus, Mercury Sunday evening from Richard Hasbrouck in Las Truchas, New Mexico. He wrote “A happy surprise after a wild-weather day.”
Mars, from Curiosity rover
View larger. | The scenic foothills of Mount Sharp on Mars, as captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover on sol 1981, the rover’s 1,981th day on Mars.
