This time on Holi, the moon will also climb the face of the moon, understand why this will happen?

This time on Holi, the face of the moon is also going to be red. Hey no one is going to put ‘Chanda Mama’. A rare astronomical phenomenon will occur on that day when the moon turns red for 65 minutes. There will be a special kind of lunar eclipse called ‘blood moon’ and it will turn the moon into dark red color.
Let us tell you in a very easy language that what is this blood moon and how the moon turns red. Before the answer, you know when the blood moon will be seen and you will see it in India or not.

When will the blood moon be lunar eclipse?

According to the data of NASA’s website, the incident of blood moon will appear on 14 March in the western hemisphere of the earth including the US, Europe and Africa. That is, it will not be seen in India.

According to NASA, blood moon is expected to last up to 1.05 hours. The rest of the eclipse (not blood moon) will appear from late night of March 13 to March 14, 2025 (IST). According to the NASA website, the eclipse for the local people of America will start at EDT on 13 March at around 11:57 pm.

What is blood moon?

First of all, know that blood moon is a type of lunar eclipse. You have to know why you feel lunar eclipse to understand blood moon. The lunar eclipse occurs when the earth comes between the moon and the sun. Due to this, the shadow of the earth falls on the moon and we do not see that part of the moon.

Now the matter of blood moon. This is a complete lunar eclipse situation which is also rare. In this, the dark part of the Earth’s shadow covers the entire moon.

After all, why does the moon color turn red in blood moon?

Now you will say that when there is a complete lunar eclipse in blood moon and the shadow of the earth covers the whole moon, then we should not see anything. The moon should be covered in a very shade. Actually this does not happen. It is perfect to think that the moon is completely in the shadow of the earth. But at the same time, a little light of sunrise and sunset of the Earth falls on the surface of the moon. Because these waves of light cover a lot of distance due to sunrise and sunset, they look red. Red colored vebelland (wavelength) is the highest in all colors, it also spreads the least even after traveling long distances. When this red light hit the surface of the moon, it also appears red.

Why does the moon look red in full lunar eclipse?
Photo Credit: Allde Bai NDTV/ NASA

When Christopher Colombus took advantage of blood moon

Skyvachar columnist of Space.com who has written that Columbus and its team were trapped on an island which is now known as Jamaica. The Columbus team killed or looted some of the original residents there. After this, the locals were not keen to help them in search of food. Columbus realized that the famine was approaching.

According to an article by Columbus’s son Ferdinand, as soon as the incident happened, the scared people started running towards the logistics loaded vessels from every direction with great screams and mourning and prayed to Admiral to intervene on their behalf. “

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