It took the Qantas plane about 18 hours to get from Buenos Aires to Darwin through the Antarctic coast, and it was the airline's longest commercial journey ever.
(CNN) — The moon was illuminated a bright coppery red, big and beaming in the night sky. And as people on the ground in Australia and New Zealand and parts of the western United States peered up to admire this rare super blood moon eclipse on May 26, perhaps the best view of the astronomical […]
What It Was Like To See The Super Blood Moon At 40,000 Feet
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Not the plane I was on, but what a cracker shot. Image: Getty
This week Australia was blessed with a particularly beautiful view of the super blood moon. I was lucky enough to spy it from a plane flying at 40,000 feet. But what was that actually like?
A super blood moon is a rare occurrence. It’s the combination of a super moon, where the moon is particularly close to the earth, and a full lunar eclipse. It’s so rare that we won’t see another one for 12 years.