A photographer has managed to capture a splendid video of the huge moon 'approaching' the Earth, in which it seems as if it is falling to the planet.
Photographer Daniel López shot a scene one morning near Tenerife’s Mount Teide volcano in Canary Islands in which he captured a breathtaking view of full moon setting. However, what made the photo more interesting was that it looked like as if the moon was falling from the sky to the planet, right above where a few people were standing.
The video was published on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of The Day (APOD). NASA explained the phenomena saying that the video was real and unaltered, but just a great illusion of science playing tricks, wrote National Geographic.
López used a telephoto lens to make the moon seem a whole lot bigger than it is seen from the naked eye. The lens greatly minimized the distance between objects in the foreground and those in the background for capturing the scene.
The video shows tiny humans standing on the edge of the volcano around 10 miles away from the telescope and the moon is around 240,000 miles behind them. According to Science Alert, the APOD team explained the quick moon setting phenomenon is because of Earth’s rotation and not any time-lapse photography. “What is moving is mostly the Earth, whose spin causes the Moon to slowly disappear behind Mount Teide.”